Characterization and Transcriptome Studies of Autoinducer Synthase Gene from Multidrug Resistant Strain 863.

Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell communication system that uses autoinducers as signaling molecules to enable inter-species and intra-species interactions in response to external stimuli according to the population density. QS allows bacteria such as to react rapidly in response to environmental changes and hence, increase the chances of survival. is one of the causative agents in hospital-acquired infections and the number of cases has increased remarkably in the past decade.