Decoding bacterial communication: Intracellular signal transduction, quorum sensing, and cross-kingdom interactions.

This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the intricate architecture of bacterial sensing systems, with a focus on signal transduction mechanisms and their critical roles in microbial physiology. It highlights quorum sensing (QS), quorum quenching (QQ), and quorum sensing interference (QSI) as fundamental processes driving bacterial communication, influencing gene expression, biofilm formation, and interspecies interactions. The analysis explores the importance of diffusible signal factors (DSFs) and secondary messengers such as cAMP and c-di-GMP in modulating microbial behaviors.

Selecting autochthonous lactic acid bacteria for co-inoculation in Chinese bayberry wine production: Stress response, starter cultures application and volatilomic study.

This study focused on isolating and characterising autochthonous lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from spontaneously fermented Chinese bayberry (CB) and their potential application in CB wine fermentation in co-inoculation with yeast starter cultures. Numerous LAB, including Lactiplantibacillus (Lp.) plantarum (9), Limosilactobacillus (Lb.