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    Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) is a furanosyl borate diester or tetrahydroxy furan (species dependent) that—as the name suggests—is an autoinducer, a member of a...
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  • In biology, an autoinducer is a signaling molecule that enables detection and response to changes in the population density of bacterial cells. Synthesized...
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    major groups are oligopeptides AIs in gram-positive bacteria; and autoinducer-2 (AI-2), as a universal signal for interspecies communications. It arises...
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    "Characterization of autoinducer 2 signal in Eikenella corrodens and its role in biofilm formation". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 102 (2): 110–7. doi:10...
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  • Cholera autoinducer-1 (CAI-1) is an autoinducer signaling molecule present in the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera. CAI-1 is known structurally...
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    DPD reacts with boric acid to form a borate diester known as autoinducer-2 (AI-2). AI-2 is a signaling molecule used for bacterial quorum sensing. It...
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  • about other species as well. This universal molecule is called autoinducer 2 or AI-2. AI-2 was first discovered in the light producing system of the bacteria...
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    bacterium that uses a synthase (LuxI) to produce a species-specific autoinducer (AI) that binds a cognate receptor (LuxR) that regulates changes in expression...
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    leaving the compound dihydroxypentandione to spontaneously convert into autoinducer-2, which is excreted as a waste product or quorum signal.[citation needed]...
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    involved in the synthesis of autoinducer AI-2 (autoinducer-2), which mediates quorum sensing in roughly half of bacterial species. AI-2, a furanosyl borate diester...
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  • autocrine signaling: a cell produces both an autoinducer molecule and the receptor for the autoinducer. As one example, quorum sensing enables bacteria...
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  • 5-kinase EC 2.7.1.187: acarbose 7IV-phosphotransferase EC 2.7.1.188: 2-epi-5-epi-valiolone 7-kinase EC 2.7.1.189: autoinducer-2 kinase EC 2.7.1.190: aminoglycoside...
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  • Family 2.A.85 The Aromatic Acid Exporter (ArAE) Family 2.A.86 The Autoinducer-2 Exporter (AI-2E) Family (Formerly the PerM Family, TC #9.B.22) 2.A.87 The...
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    inter-species signalling is mediated by 4, 5-dihydroxy-2, 3-pentanedione (DPD), also known as autoinducer-2 (Al-2). The evolution of the human oral microbiome can...
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  • "Regulation of Bacterial Biofilm Formation by Ultrasound: Role of Autoinducer-2 and Finite-Element Analysis of Acoustic Streaming". Ultrasound in Medicine...
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  • transporter * EC 7.6.2.12: ABC-type capsular-polysaccharide transporter * EC 7.6.2.13: ABC-type autoinducer-2 transporter * EC 7.6.2.14: ABC-type aliphatic...
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  • W. (2012-10-01). "Bifidobacterium spp. influences the production of autoinducer-2 and biofilm formation by Escherichia coli O157:H7". Anaerobe. 18 (5):...
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  • AHL synthase, AHS, AHSL synthase, AhyI, AinS, AinS protein, autoinducer synthase, autoinducer synthesis protein rhlI, EsaI, ExpISCC1, ExpISCC3065, LasI...
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    the ain system, uses the autoinducer C8-HSL, which is produced by the protein AinS. Similar to the lux system, the autoinducer C8-HSL increases activation...
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    LuxR, encoded by luxI and luxR respectively. LuxI is autoinducer synthase that produces autoinducer (AI) while LuxR functions as both a receptor and transcription...
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  • called an autoinducer, which was not identified until 1981. In 1985, Greenberg reported that, instead of a complex mechanism, the autoinducer simply passively...
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    sensing are called autoinducers, which are communicatory molecules that can induce conformist actions among a group. Specific autoinducers are used to influence...
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    Apolipoprotein B (category Genes on human chromosome 2)
    infection. The mechanism of antagonism entails binding ApoB, to a S. aureus autoinducer pheromone, preventing signaling through its receptor. Mice deficient...
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    mechanism of antagonism entails binding apolipoprotein B to a S. aureus autoinducer pheromone, preventing signaling through its receptor. Mice deficient...
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    Cámara M (March 2011). "Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 35 (2): 247–274. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00247.x. PMC 3053476...
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  • conclusion is twofold: When autoinducers are costly, any microbial strain that simultaneously produces both the autoinducer and mixed goods is unlikely...
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  • involves the secretion by individual cells of 'signaling' molecules, called autoinducers or pheromones. These bacteria also have a receptor that can specifically...
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    which may utilize autoinducers or other mechanisms in order to restrict colonization by V. cholerae or other enteropathogens. Autoinducers, specifically with...
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    C-terminal region of the protein; the N-terminal region often containing an autoinducer-binding domain or a response regulatory domain. Most luxR-type regulators...
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    Semmelhack MF, Bassler BL (2007-11-14). "The major Vibrio cholerae autoinducer and its role in virulence factor production". Nature. 450 (7171): 883–886...
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