Quorum-sensing autoinducer

Patent Pending Autoinducers are chemical signaling molecules that are produced and used by same type of bacteria participating in quorum sensing.[1] Quorum sensing is a phenomenon that allows both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria to sense one another and to regulate a wide variety of physiological activities. Such activities include symbiosis, virulence, motility, antibiotic production, and biofilm formation.