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Activity of Proteus mirabilis FliL is viscosity dependent and requires extragenic DNA.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2013
Lee Yi-Ying, Patellis Julius, Belas Robert
Abstract excerpt
Proteus mirabilis is a urinary tract pathogen and well known for its ability to move over agar surfaces by flagellum-dependent swarming motility. When P. mirabilis encounters a highly viscous environment, e.g., an agar surface, it differentiates from short rods with few flagella to elongated, highly flagellated cells that lack septa and contain multiple nucleoids. The bacteria detect a surface by monitoring the...
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