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Bacteria slingshot more on soft surfaces

Adaptive responses greatly improve the competitive capacities of bacteria in diverse environments. Here, we investigate whether bacteria can adapt to a microenvironment with distinctive softness by examining the type-IV pili (TFP)-mediated motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells on brush-like surfa...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Rongrong, Ni, Lei, Jin, Zhenyu, Li, Jiahong, Jin, Fan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25412641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6541