Biotechnological Applications of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors [Hardcover]

This book discusses the practical applications of quorum sensing inhibitors for both human and plant health. Quorum sensing inhibitors that disrupt microbial biofilms can be employed to treat bacterial infections. The book describes the various bioactive molecules that can serve as quorum sensing inhibitors to combat deadly bacterial infections, in addition to several synthetic quorum sensing inhibitors.

Quorum sensing is the mechanism through which bacteria develop antibiotic resistance. Intended to provide a clearer understanding of the practical applications of quorum sensing inhibitors, the book details how the problem of antibiotic resistance can be countered through the intelligent application of quorum sensing inhibitors.

A. Human Health.- Inhibition of Quorum-sensing: a new paradigm in controlling bacterial virulence and biofilm formation.- Targeting Quorum Sensing Mediated Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms: A Proteolytic Approach.- Alternative strategies for control of quorum sensing and biofilm formation of pathogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa by plant, marine and synthetic based quorum sensing inhibitors.- Quorum Quenching and Biofilm Inhibition: Alternative imminent strategies to control the disease Cholera.-  Anti-biofilm peptides: A new class of quorum quenchers and their prospective therapeutic applications.- Quorum sensing inhibition: A target for treating chronic wounds.- Efflux pump-mediated quorum sensingnew avenues for modulation of antimicrobial resistance and bacterial virulence.- CRISPR-Cas systems regulate quorum sensing genes and alter virulence in bacteria.- Developing Anti-virulence Chemotherapies by Exploiting the Diversity of Microbial Quorum Sensing Systems.- Synergism between quorum sensing inhibitors and antibiotics: Combating the antibiotic resistance crisis.- Nanoparticles as quorum sensing inhibitor: Prospects and limitations.- Nanotechnological Approacheslc`