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Bacterial cell communication process is modelled mathematically with emphasis on the molecular mechanism of the gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. This chapter mainly focuses on the mathematical formalism of the lux regulatory model, up-down regulatory model, Dockery-Keener model, complex formation model and the dynamical model of Staphylococcus aureus cell communication. All these type of mathematical modelling approaches give us a significant and fundamental insight of the bacterial communication process at the molecular level.
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Majumdar, S., Roy, S. (2020). MathematicalModels of Quorum Sensing Molecular Mechanisms. In: Microbial Communication. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7417-7_3
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