Single-cell twitching chemotaxis in developing biofilms

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

Volumn 113, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6532-6537

  Oliveira, Nuno M ^a,b   Foster, Kevin R ^a   Durham, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial chemotaxis; Pil Chp system; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Twitching motility; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL SURFACE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWITCHING MOTILITY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; FIMBRIA; LAB ON A CHIP; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHEMOTAXIS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84973316062     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600760113     Document Type: Article

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