Bacterial twitching motility is coordinated by a two-dimensional tug-of-war with directional memory

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Marathe, Rahul ^a   Meel, Claudia ^b   Schmidt, Nora C ^b   Dewenter, Lena ^b   Kurre, Rainer ^b   Greune, Lilo ^c   Alexander Schmidt, M ^c   Müller, Melanie J I ^d   Lipowsky, Reinhard ^a   Maier, Berenike ^b   Klumpp, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; MEMORY; MOTILITY; PERSISTENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; FORCE; MEMORY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TWITCHING MOTILITY; VELOCITY; FIMBRIA; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84900018932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4759     Document Type: Article

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