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J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.01040-07
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The Influence of the Hydrodynamic Environment on Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305; Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717; Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; Center for Genomic Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212; Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: kirisits{at}mail.utexas.edu. parsem{at}u.washington.edu.

	Abstract

We provide experimental and modeling evidence that the hydrodynamic environment can impact quorum sensing (QS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm. The amount of biofilm biomass required for full QS induction of the population increased as the flow rate increased.