Editing Quorum sensing (section)

==Etymology==
Because Nealson, Platt, and Hastings attributed the conditioning of the growth medium to the growing population of cells itself, they referred to the phenomenon as autoinduction.<ref name="Nealson-et-al-1970" /><ref name="Nealson-1977" /><ref name="Bodman-et-al-2003" />

In 1994, after study of the phenomenon had expanded into several additional bacteria, Stephen Winans did not believe the word ''autoinduction'' fully characterized the true process so, in a review article coauthored with W. Claiborne Fuqua and E. Peter Greenberg,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fuqua |first1=W C |last2=Winans |first2=S C |last3=Greenberg |first3=E P |date=January 1994 |title=Quorum sensing in bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI family of cell density-responsive transcriptional regulators |journal=Journal of Bacteriology |volume=176 |issue=2 |pages=269–275 |doi=10.1128/jb.176.2.269-275.1994 |pmc=205046 |pmid=8288518}}</ref> he introduced the term ''quorum sensing''. Its use also avoided confusion between the terms ''autoinduction'' and ''[[autoregulation]]''. The new term was not stumbled onto, but rather created through trial and error. Among the alternatives that Winans had created and considered were ''gridlockins'', ''communiolins'', and ''quoromones''.<ref name="Turovskiy Kashtanov Paskhover Chikindas 2007">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0065-2164(07)62007-3 |title=Quorum Sensing: Fact, Fiction, and Everything in Between |date=2007 |last1=Turovskiy |first1=Yevgeniy |last2=Kashtanov |first2=Dimitri |last3=Paskhover |first3=Boris |last4=Chikindas |first4=Michael L. |journal=Advances in Applied Microbiology |volume=62 |pages=191–234 |pmid=17869606 |pmc=2391307 }}</ref>