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A novel role for RecA under non-stress: promotion of swarming motility in Escherichia coli K-12

BACKGROUND: Bacterial motility is a crucial factor in the colonization of natural environments. Escherichia coli has two flagella-driven motility types: swimming and swarming. Swimming motility consists of individual cell movement in liquid medium or soft semisolid agar, whereas swarming is a coordi...

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Autores principales: Gómez-Gómez, José-María, Manfredi, Candela, Alonso, Juan-Carlos, Blázquez, Jesús
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17391508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-5-14