Localized cell death focuses mechanical forces during 3D patterning in a biofilm

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18891-18896

  Asally, Munehiro ^a   Kittisopikul, Mark ^a,b,c   Rué, Pau ^d,e   Du, Yingjie ^f   Hu, Zhenxing ^f   Çaǧatay, Tolga ^b,c   Robinson, Andra B ^b,c   Lu, Hongbing ^f   Garcia Ojalvo, Jordi ^d,e   Süel, Gürol M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern formation; Self assembly; Systems dynamics

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILM; CELL MOTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FORCE; GENE DELETION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL TORSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG MODULUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILMS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84869234725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212429109     Document Type: Article

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