AmiGO 2: Term Details for "quorum sensing" (GO:0009372)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0009372
Name: quorum sensing
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: quorum sensing system, cell-cell signaling involved in quorum sensing, detection of cell density by secreted molecule
Alternate IDs: GO:0060247, GO:0010699
Definition: The cell-cell signaling process in which single-celled organisms carry out coordinated responses by monitoring their own population density, and often also that of other microbes, by producing small, diffusible, signal molecules, detecting the concentration of these molecules, and triggering a signal transduction pathway when a certain threshold is reached. Quorum sensing can occur amongst microbial communities in the environment or within host organisms. Source: PMID:15716452, GOC:krc, PMID:16630813, PMID:16497924, PMID:8288518, GOC:mlg, PMID:10607620
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0009372 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_metagenomics; goslim_pir
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to quorum sensing (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to quorum sensing (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for quorum sensing (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0065007 biological regulation
GO:0050896 response to stimulus
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0051606 detection of stimulus
GO:0050789 regulation of biological process
GO:0009607 response to biotic stimulus
GO:0007154 cell communication
GO:0009595 detection of biotic stimulus
GO:0023052 signaling
GO:0007267 cell-cell signaling
GO:0060245 detection of cell density
GO:0009372 quorum sensing
GO:0120218 host interaction involved in quorum sensing

Parents of quorum sensing (GO:0009372)

subject	relation	object
quorum sensing	is_a	cell-cell signaling (GO:0007267)
quorum sensing	is_a	detection of cell density (GO:0060245)

Children of quorum sensing (GO:0009372)

subject	relation	object
host interaction involved in quorum sensing (GO:0120218)	is_a	quorum sensing

Wikipedia: Quorum_sensing