Responses of Escherichia coli bacteria to two opposing chemoattractant gradients depend on the chemoreceptor ratio

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1796-1800

  Kalinin, Yevgeniy ^a   Neumann, Silke ^b   Sourjik, Victor ^b   Wu, Mingming ^a,c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; METHYL ASPARTATE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL STIMULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SERINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77949689337     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01507-09     Document Type: Article

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