Article
Flagella modulate the multicellular behavior of Salmonella typhimurium on the community level.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Nov 1999
Römling U, Rohde M
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella typhimurium strains MAE52 and MAE32 display a constitutive multicellular morphotype mediated by the expression of the agfD operon. In those strains, the role of flagella in the formation of various modes of multicellular behavior was investigated. Flagella were not required for the formation of the multicellular morphotype (rdar) on plates. However, visual examination showed that the global behavior of...
Topics
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Biofilms
- Flagella
- Genes, Bacterial
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Salmonella typhimurium
