A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mutual exclusion, data replication, and dissemination of information. Given a strategy to pick quorums, the load L(S) is the minimal access probability of the busiest element, minimizing over the strategies. The capacit...

A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty intersection. Quorum systems have been used for a number of applications in the area of distributed systems. In this paper we study the fault-tolerance properties of quorum systems, and their implications on quorum based distributed protocols. For this study we adopt the following common model. The processors (...

Type III secretion systems enable pathogens to inject their virulence factors directly into the cytoplasm of the host cells. The type III secretion system of Vibrio harveyi, a major pathogen of aquatic organisms and a model species in quorum sensing studies, is repressed by the quorum sensing master regulator LuxR. In this study, we found that during infection of gnotobiotic brine shrimp larvae...

Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Aeromonas caviae strain L12, which shows quorum-sensing activity. The availability of this genome sequence is important to the research of the quorum-sensing regulatory system in this isolate.

Quorum Sensing is a special system between bacteria to communicate with the signal molecules. Propolis resin collected from plants by honey bees. The present study examined anti-quorum sensing and antimicrobial activities of water ethanol extracts propolis. propolis were studied against Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 Gram (-), Listeria monocytogenes 7644, Streptococcus mutans CNCTC 8/77, Staphyloc...

Background: For bacteria, it is important for survival to sense their population density or quorum. We use a well-known quorum sensing system of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti in order to study and model its molecular basis. The quorum sensing system depends upon the players ExpR, SinR, SinI and AHL, the signaling molecule within the system. Results: We present a minimal m...

A quorum system is a collection of subsets of servers, every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been suggested as a tool for concurrency control in replicated databases almost twenty years ago. They promised to guarantee strict consistency and to provide high availability and fault-tolerance in the face of server crashes and network partitions. Despite these promises, current commercia...

Quorum sensing is a regulatory mechanism (operating in response to cell density) which in gram-negative bacteria usually involves the production of N-acyl homoserine lactones (HSL). Quorum sensing in Burkholderia cepacia has been associated with the regulation of expression of extracellular proteins and siderophores and also with the regulation of swarming and biofilm formation. In the present ...