Uses K Electrical Signalling to Orchestrate Host Sensing, Inter-Bacterial Communication and Differentiation.

Prokaryotic communities coordinate quorum behaviour in response to external stimuli to control fundamental processes including inter-bacterial communication. The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen adopts two developmental forms, invasive elementary bodies (EBs) and replicative reticulate bodies (RBs), which reside within a specialised membrane-bound compartment within the host cell termed an inclusion. The mechanisms by which this bacterial community orchestrates different stages of development from within the inclusion in coordination with the host remain elusive.