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Secondary bacterial flagellar system improves bacterial spreading by increasing the directional persistence of swimming.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Aug 2014
Bubendorfer Sebastian, Koltai Mihaly, Rossmann Florian, Sourjik Victor, Thormann Kai M
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As numerous bacterial species, Shewanella putrefaciens CN-32 possesses a complete secondary flagellar system. A significant subpopulation of CN-32 cells induces expression of the secondary system under planktonic conditions, resulting in formation of one, sometimes two, filaments at lateral positions in addition to the primary polar flagellum. Mutant analysis revealed that the single chemotaxis system primarily...
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