A single intracellular protein governs the critical transition from an individual to a coordinated population response during quorum sensing: Origins of primordial language
Celina Vila-Sanjurjo, Christoph Engwer, Xiaofei Qin, Lea Hembach, Tania Verdía-Cotelo, Carmen Remuñán-López, Antón Vila-Sanjurjo, Francisco M. Goycoolea
This paper challenges the traditional AI-centered view of quorum sensing by showing that LuxR-like activators, not autoinducers, govern the coordinated population response through percolation theory.
bioRxiv · Sep 9, 2016 · PreprintMicrobiology