Oleskin A.V. Intercellular Interactions:
Population Structures and Intercellular Communication in Microbial Populations

Олескин А.В.

Межклеточные взаимодействия

200 pp. (English).

White offset paper

Paperback

. (На английском языке)

Summary

This work is aimed at performing two main functions.

First, it is a brief guidebook on population structures and intercellular communication in microbial populations. This guidebook is mainly intended for students (bachelors and especially masters) majoring in immunology. Therefore, special attention will be paid to intercellular interactions implicated in the operation of the immune system. Even though much time will be spent on chiefly microbiological... (More)

Contents

Acknowledgments 6||3 Introduction||7 Abbreviations||9 Lecture 1. Population organization and communication-centered paradigm (POCCP) in microbiology. Its subfields and history||12 1.1. Expounding the population organization and communication-centered paradigm||12 1.2. Historical||14 Lecture 2. Microbial social behavior. Biofilms||22 2.1. Social behavior in microorganisms||22 2.1.1. Aggression||24 2.1.2. Avoidance (isolation)||26 2.1.3. Affiliation||27 2.1.4. Cooperation||28 2.2. Biofilms||29 Lecture 3. Chemical communication. Quorum sensing: main principles||40 3.1. Contact communication||41 3.2. Distant chemical communication among spatially separated cells||43 3.3. Quorum sensing: basic principles||43 3.3.1. Quorum sensing systems in gram-negative bacteria||46 3.3.2. Quorum sensing systems in gram-positive bacteria||51 Lecture 4. Quorum sensing: specific signals. Distant physical communication factors||55 4.1. Furanone signals (AI-2)||55

About the author

Alexander V. Oleskin

Doctor of Science (Biology), Full Professor (General Ecology and Hydrobiology Department, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University). Awards: Certificate of Recognition, International Nutrition Research Conference (Valencia, 2023); Certificate of Recognition, Nutraceuticals Conference (London, 2019); Honorary Emblem (Metchnikoff Star), Metchinoff in the 21st Century Program (Moscow, 2010); First-Grade Shuvalov Prize, Moscow State University (Moscow, 1994). Research: neurotransmitter synthesis by pro- and eukaryotic microorganisms; impact of neurotransmitters on growth, fatty acid, chlorophyll, and biogenic amine synthesis in bacteria, yeast, and microalgae; biopolitics; network structures in biological systems and human society.

Prof. Oleskin has recently produces the following monographs and guidebooks: Intercellular Interactions (Moscow: URSS, 2023), Global Ecology and Sustainable Development (Moscow: URSS, 2022), Decentralized Network Organization of the Scientific Community (Moscow: URSS, 2021), Microbial Communication and Microbiota-Host Interactions (with B. A. Shenderov, New York: Nova, 2020), Network Structures in Biological Systems and in Human Society (New York: Nova, 2014), and Biopolitics: The Political Potential of the Life Sciences (New York: Nova, 2012).

Oleskin A.V. Intercellular Interactions: Population Structures and Intercellular Communication in Microbial Populations

Summary

Oleskin A.V. Intercellular Interactions:
Population Structures and Intercellular Communication in Microbial Populations