@article{3002,
author = "Toure Samba Lamine and Lou Zaixiang and Mamadi Aissata Kaba and Cliff Barra Johny and Waleed AL-Ansi",
abstract = "Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. The bacterial communication system (quorum sensing, QS) is a process by which bacteria produce and detect signal molecules and thereby coordinate their behavior in a cell-density dependent manner. In bacteria, chemical communication involves producing, releasing, detecting, and responding to small hormone-like molecules termed autoinducers. Three main QS systems can be distinguished: the acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) QS system in Gram-negative bacteria, the autoinducing peptide (AIP) QS system in Gram-positive bacteria and the autoinducer-2 (AI-2) QS system in both Gram-negative and -positive bacteria. This process, termed quorum sensing, allows bacteria to monitor the environment for other bacteria and to alter behavior on a population-wide scale in response to changes in the number and/or species present in a community. Quorum sensing in food processing environments can lead to post-treatment contamination, thereby reducing product shelf life and disease transmission. The ability to control quorum sensing is a significant problem because of health problems and economic losses. There is a quest to find a natural product rather than a synthetic product that can be used as generally recognized as safe. Mushrooms produce a huge number of natural products. Many mushroom extracts contain phenol derivatives, terpenes, flavonoids, etc., which have the ability to suppress attachment to microbial cells. This mini-review combines most of the recently published work on quorum sensing inhibition (mushroom inhibitor) and figure out the inhibition mechanism which can be safely used in food safety and human health issues.",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Quorum Sensing;Extract;Mushroom;Biofilm",
month = "March",
number = "5",
pages = "501-507",
title = "{Q}uorum {S}ensing {I}nhibitor and its {I}nhibition {M}echanism: {M}ushroom {D}erived {A}gents",
volume = "7",
year = "2019",
}