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Holdfast spreading and thickening during Caulobacter crescentus attachment to surfaces

BACKGROUND: Adhesion to surfaces facilitates many crucial functions of microbes in their natural habitats. Thus understanding the mechanism of microbial adhesion is of broad interest to the microbiology research community. RESULTS: We report a study by fluorescence imaging and atomic force microscop...

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Autores principales: Li, Guanglai, Brun, Yves V, Tang, Jay X
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23777390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-139