Can quorum sensing signals in gram-negative microbes be sent via pilus-like nanotubes & outer membrane vesicles as in EM pictures in this paper here?

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Microbe-microbe, microbe-host/target cell signalling may not just be confined to free signal molecules flow with dilution on the way.

Article Electron microscope studies of surface pilli and vesicles of...

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