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Correlated phenotypic transitions to competence in bacterial colonies.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Oct 2007

Hecht Inbal, Ben-Jacob Eshel, Levine Herbert

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Genetic competence is a phenotypic state of a bacterial cell in which it is capable of importing DNA, presumably to improve survival under stress. Motivated by several colony-level known responses, we present a model for the influence of quorum sensing on the transition to competence of B. Subtilis. Coupling to the external signal creates an effective inhibitory mechanism, which results in anticorrelation between...

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PMID: 17994927
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.040901

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