The chemical-in-plug bacterial chemotaxis assay is prone to false positive responses

BACKGROUND: Chemical-in-plug assays are commonly used to study bacterial chemotaxis, sometimes in the absence of stringent controls. RESULTS: We report that non-chemotactic and non-motile mutants in two distinct bacterial species (Shewanella oneidensis and Helicobacter pylori) show apparent zones of...

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Autores principales: Li, Jun, Go, Alvin C, Ward, Mandy J, Ottemann, Karen M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20233446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-77

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20233446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-77

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