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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
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History
See term history for GO:0009372 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
goslim_metagenomics
goslim_pir
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Parents of quorum sensing (GO:0009372)
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quorum sensing [is_a relation] is_a  cell-cell signaling (GO:0007267)
quorum sensing [is_a relation] is_a  detection of cell density (GO:0060245)
Children of quorum sensing (GO:0009372)
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host interaction involved in quorum sensing (GO:0120218) [is_a relation] is_a  quorum sensing
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Quorum_sensing