Asynchrony in the growth and motility responses to environmental changes by individual bacterial cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 356, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 464-469

  Umehara, Senkei ^a   Hattori, Akihiro ^b   Inoue, Ippei ^a   Yasuda, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial flagella; Cell growth; Cell motility; Deflagellation; Escherichia coli; Intercellular communication; Microfabrication; Nutrient starvation; Phenotypic diversity; Single cell

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; ON CHIP SINGLE CELL CULTIVATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; MOVEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947354618     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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