Understanding the Collective Nose of Bacteria

Michael M. Meijler

doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2016.03.005

Understanding the Collective Nose of Bacteria

Michael M. Meijler

Department of Chemistry

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Bacteria use a rich chemical vocabulary to "smell out" environmental conditions and communicate with each other about what is going on. This helps them optimize their virulence and attack differently, depending on whether they are, for example, in the lungs or the gut. In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Welsh and Blackwell (2016) start to unravel this complexity using chemical probes and offer insights into how we might start targeting these processes in a new way.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-318
Number of pages	2
Journal	Cell Chemical Biology
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2016.03.005
State	Published - 17 Mar 2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biochemistry
Molecular Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Drug Discovery
Clinical Biochemistry

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