Sentence examples for as a quorum from inspiring English sources

The White House must quickly fill at least one vacancy or Congress must quickly pass a law allowing the commission's two members to qualify as a quorum.

In this work, we developed 'controller cells' that manipulate the molecular connection between cells by modulating the bacterial signal molecule, autoinducer-2, that is secreted as a quorum sensing (QS) signal by many bacterial species.

Washington arrived in Philadelphia on May 13, the day before the opening of the Constitutional Convention, and as soon as a quorum was obtained he was unanimously chosen its president.

That lean membership has sparked a huge litigation dispute, which leaves lower courts divided on whether two judges count as a quorum.

When the second session started just after 2 p.m., attendance was again registered, delaying the process even further, as a quorum of 342 was required for the final vote.

As soon as a quorum of Blunts is present, the other cells need not cooperate themselves in order to profit from the cooperation benefit.

Finally, this paper presents a potential application of the genetic Muller C-element as a quorum-mediated trigger.

Thus, the three partners PlcR, OppABCDF and PapR function as a quorum-sensing system.

The reasons for evolving a cyclic thiolactone structure as a quorum-sensing signal are still not clear.

Finally, C. albicans produces farnesol, a cell-to-cell signaling molecule that could act as a quorum-sensing antagonist of P. aeruginosa [ 14, 29].

This sesquiterpenoid was also identified as a quorum-sensing molecule produced by the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans, where it prevents the fungal transition from yeast to mycelium, and disrupts biofilm formation [ 11, 12].