Full Description
This book delves into the biotechnological applications of Quorum sensing (QS)- a peculiar gene-regulatory process of some microorganisms. Quorum Sensing allows a large bacterial population to work together in a coordinated manner to carry out metabolic activities, which individual bacterium cannot. The different chapters describe how, associating bioremediation process with energy generation is an economical proposal, for reducing pollution and managing biowastes.
The book discusses how QS can be exploited for biotechnological applications in generating bioproducts, bioenergy, bioremediation, biosensors, health and agricultural activities. It further highlights how QS is becoming an integral part of synthetic biology for genetic circuits for producing: (i) novel products, (ii) biosensors, (iii) bioactive molecules, etc. The book is divided into different sections for a clear understanding of the applicability of QS in, the Environment, Energy,Agriculture and Health sectors.
Contents
A. Environment.-1. Quorum Sensing and its Inhibition: Biotechnological Applications.- 2. Talking through Chemical Languages: Quorum Sensing and Bacterial Communication.- 3. Phylogenomics and evolutionary perspective of quorum sensing regulators (LuxI/LuxR) in prokaryotes.- 4. Technology platforms for bioanalysis of Quorum sensing system and exploiting it as Biomonitors and Biosensors.- 5. Application of Microbial Quorum Sensing Systems for Bioremediation of Wastewaters.- 6. lux gene: Quorum Sensing, Engineering and applications.- 7. Strategies behind biosensors for food and waterborne pathogens.- 8. Transcriptome: A tool for biotechnological applications of quorum sensing using single cell and viruses B. Energy.- 9. Application of Quorum Sensing Systems in Production of Green Fuels.- 10. Bacterial quorum sensing: applications of microbial fuel cells in yellow biotechnology C. Agriculture.- 11. Pseudomonas: A quorum sensing system for improved crop production.- 12. Significance and application of quorum sensing in food microbiology D. Health.- 13. Quorum Sensing Controls Costs of Bacterial CRISPR-Cas Adaptive Immune Systems.- 14. Quorum Sensing in life support systems: the MELiSSA loop.- 15. Novel Super-regulators of Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.- 16. Applications of serine/threonine protein kinases (STPK): A bus for dormancy exit.- 17. Quorum sensing talk in bacteria to make it CRISPR.- 18. Quorum sensing systems.
