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A nutrient-tunable bistable switch controls motility in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.
mBio - 26 Aug 2014
Koirala Santosh, Mears Patrick, Sim Martin, Golding Ido, Chemla Yann R, Aldridge Phillip D, Rao Christopher V
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Many bacteria are motile only when nutrients are scarce. In contrast, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is motile only when nutrients are plentiful, suggesting that this bacterium uses motility for purposes other than foraging, most likely for host colonization. In this study, we investigated how nutrients affect motility in S. enterica and found that they tune the fraction of motile cells. In...
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