The molecular dialog of microorganisms

To interact with one another and respond to the different environmental stimuli, microorganisms communicate with their own chemical language and use a wide range of extracellular signals and cellular responses, leading to beneficial or deleterious effects for one or the other of the partners with sometimes very precarious equilibria between these different effects. 

Antimicrobial Peptida Autoinducer Three-dimensional structure of Sviceudn 

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