Quorum Sensing Reporter Assay

Detects bacterial cell-to-cell chemical signaling directly, by engineering a reporter strain that lights up specifically in response to the signaling molecule bacteria release as their population grows dense.

References

• Passador, L., Cook, J.M., Gambello, M.J., et al. "Expression of Pseudomonas." Science 268, no. 5213 (1995): 778–781.