BookPallaval Veera Bramhachari, Editor.
Summary: The book illustrates the role of quorum sensing in the food industry, agriculture, veterinary sciences, and medicine. It highlights the importance of quorum sensing in regulating diverse cellular functions in microbes, including virulence, pathogenesis, controlled-gene expression systems, and antibiotic resistance. This book also describes the role of quorum sensing in survival behavior and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Further, it reviews the major role played by quorum sensing in food spoilage, biofilm formation, and food-related pathogenesis. It also explores the methods for the detection and quantification of quorum sensing signals. It also presents antimicrobial and anti-quorum sensing activities of medicinal plants. Finally, the book elucidates a comprehensive yet representative description of basic and applied aspects of quorum sensing inhibitors. This book serves an ideal guide for researchers to understand the implications of quorum sensing in the food industry, medicine, and agriculture.
Contents:
Part 1. Role of Quorum sensing in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Chapter 1. Novel insights on the functional aspects of Quorum sensing systems and its applications in Medicine, Food industry and Agriculture
Chapter 2. Quorum Sensing Controlled Gene Expression Systems In Gram-Positive And Gram-Negative Bacteria
Chapter 3. Bacterial quorum sensing: biofilm formation, survival behavior and antibiotic resistance
Chapter 4. Modulation of Bacterial Quorum Sensing by Eukaryotes
Chapter 5. Cell to Communication between Mammalian Host and Microbial Quorum Sensing orchestrates the complex relationships
Chapter 6. In silico approaches for unearthing Bacterial Quorum sensing inhibitors against pathogenic bacteria
Part 2. Role of Quorum sensing in Medicine
Chapter 7. Significance of Quorum sensing and biofilm formation in Medicine and Veterinary sciences
Chapter 8. Quorum Sensing and Multidrug Resistance Mechanism in Helicobacter pylori
Chapter 9. Candida albicans Biofilm: Risks, Complications and Preventive strategies
Chapter 10. Quorum-sensing and biofilm formation by oral pathogenic microbes in the dental plaques: Implication for health and disease
Chapter 11. Biofilm Formation on Ophthalmic device related infections: Insights on Clinical Implications
Part 3. Biofilm Formation on Ophthalmic device related infections: Insights on Clinical Implications
Chapter 12. Quorum sensing: Communication complexity for resilience of plant microbe interaction
Chapter 13. Role of medicinal plants and endophytic bacteria of medicinal plants in inhibition of biofilm formation: interference in quorum sensing
Chapter 14. Antimicrobial and Anti-quorum Sensing Activities of Medicinal Plants
Part 4. Role of Quorum sensing in Food Industry
Chapter 15
Bacterial Quorum Sensing in Food Microbiology Perspective
Chapter 16. Methods for the Detection and Quantification of Quorum Sensing Signals in Food Spoilage
Chapter 17. Novel perspectives on t he Quorum Sensing Inhibitors (QSIs)/Quorum Quenchers (QQs) in Food preservation and Spoilage
Chapter 18. Implications of Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching in aquaculture health management
Chapter 19. Strategies for disruption of biofilm formation ability and intricate Quorum sensing networks in aquaculture Vibrio pathogens.