Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry

1. Front Matter

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2. Role of Quorum Sensing in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Novel Insights on the Functional Aspects of Quorum Sensing Systems and Its Applications in Medicine, Food Industry, and Agriculture

      • Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

      Pages 3-10

   3. Quorum Sensing-Controlled Gene Expression Systems in Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

      • Meghanath Prabhu, Milind Naik, Veda Manerikar

      Pages 11-20

   4. Bacterial Quorum Sensing: Biofilm Formation, Survival Behaviour and Antibiotic Resistance

      • Ramesh Subramani, Mani Jayaprakashvel

      Pages 21-37

   5. Modulation of Bacterial Quorum Sensing by Eukaryotes

      • Sathish Rajamani, Lukuo Lee, Emma Smith, Max Majireck, Rajinikanth Mohan

      Pages 39-56

   6. Cell to Communication Between Mammalian Host and Microbial Quorum Sensing Orchestrates the Complex Relationships

      • Prudhvi Lal Bhukya, Ganugula Mohana Sheela, A. M. V. N. Prathyusha, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

      Pages 57-65

   7. In Silico Approaches for Unearthing Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors Against Pathogenic Bacteria

      • Shrikant Pawar, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari, Chandrajit Lahiri

      Pages 67-83

3. Role of Quorum Sensing in Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Significance of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine and Veterinary Sciences

      • Prudhvi Lal Bhukya, Renuka Nawadkar, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari, Ganugula Mohana Sheela

      Pages 87-99

   3. Quorum Sensing and Multidrug Resistance Mechanism in Helicobacter pylori

      • Surekha Challa, Titash Dutta, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari, Neelapu Nageswara Rao Reddy

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   4. Candida albicans Biofilm: Risks, Complications and Preventive Strategies

      • Prerna Pathak

      Pages 121-128

   5. Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation by Oral Pathogenic Microbes in the Dental Plaques: Implication for Health and Disease

      • Pallaval Veera Bramhachari, V. K. Shakeel Ahmed, Joseph Selvin, Saqib Hassan

      Pages 129-140

   6. Biofilm Formation on Ophthalmic Device-Related Infections: Insights on Clinical Implications

      • Kishore Kumar Godisela, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

      Pages 141-155

4. Role of Quorum Sensing in Agriculture

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   2. Quorum Sensing: Communication Complexity for Resilience of Plant-Microbe Interaction

      • K. Archana, K. Sathi Reddy, P. Ravinder, M. Yahya Khan, Hameeda Bee

      Pages 159-175

   3. Role of Medicinal Plants and Endophytic Bacteria of Medicinal Plants in Inhibition of Biofilm Formation: Interference in Quorum Sensing

      • Chanda Vikrant Berde, Sagar P. Salvi, Prachiti P. Rawool, A. M. V. N. Prathyusha, Vikrant B. Berde

      Pages 177-188

   4. Antimicrobial and Anti-quorum Sensing Activities of Medicinal Plants

      • Angela E. Peter, Pola Sudhakar, B. V. Sandeep, B. Ganga Rao

      Pages 189-217

5. Role of Quorum Sensing in Food Industry

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   2. Bacterial Quorum Sensing: Challenges and Prospects in Food Microbiology

      • L. Veeranjaneya Reddy, Y. J. Wee, L. Prasanna Anjaneya Reddy, Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

      Pages 221-249

The book illustrates the role of quorum sensing in the food industry, agriculture, veterinary sciences, and medicine. It highlights the importance of quorum sensing in regulating diverse cellular functions in microbes, including virulence, pathogenesis, controlled-gene expression systems, and antibiotic resistance.

This book also describes the role of quorum sensing in survival behavior and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Further, it reviews the major role played by quorum sensing in food spoilage, biofilm formation, and food-related pathogenesis. It also explores the methods for the detection and quantification of quorum sensing signals. It also presents antimicrobial and anti-quorum sensing activities of medicinal plants. Finally, the book elucidates a comprehensive yet representative description of basic and applied aspects of quorum sensing inhibitors.

This book serves an ideal guide for researchers to understand the implications of quorum sensing in the foodindustry, medicine, and agriculture.

• Quorum sensing
• Biofilm formation
• Quorum sensing inhibitors
• Food industry
• Quorum sensing signals
• gene expression

• Department of Biotechnology, Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India

  Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, India. He has served as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Australia, and DBT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IIsc), Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Goa University, India. His major research focuses on applied microbiology and cell biology research, including biochemical mechanism of bacterial-biofilm formations, structure-function relationship of bacterial rhamnolipids, and basic and translational cancer research. He has published more than 115 research articles in leading peer-reviewed international journals and 3 international books and has presented 47 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for a number of national and international journals. He is a member of several international scientific societies and organizations, most importantly, Indian Science Congress & Society of Biological Chemists, India. He has received a number of various prestigious awards, notably, AP State Best Scientist Award 2017, DST SERB Young Scientist Award (2011) and nominated as an Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (APAS) for the year 2016.

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