Microbial communication?

[R.D. Haigh]

Hi 

I haven't got my references handy but try your searches again using 

Try homoserine lactones for gram negatives. Useful names are Paul Williams 
(Nottingham) Peter Greenberg (Iowa) George Salmond (Oxford ?)

Gram positives ferequently use peptides in signalling and these are often 
referred to as pheromones. I can't think of anyone's name offhand.

There was a very nice paper in Nature (I think ) before Christmas on 
Sacchromyces signalling between colonies I can't remember what the 
chemical was they used.
And obviously there are the mating factors in Sacchromyces

I can't remember any nice big chunky reveiws anywhere recently but 
there is certainly plenty of information out there.

Have fun

Richard

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