Cell-cell communication enhances bacterial chemotaxis toward external attractants

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Long, Zhicheng ^a,b   Quaife, Bryan ^c   Salman, Hanna ^a,b   Oltvai, Zoltán N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPARTIC ACID; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85031031351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13183-9     Document Type: Article

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