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Open AccessStructural and functional characterization of the bacterial biofilm activator RemA
Bacillus subtilis can form structurally complex biofilms on solid or liquid surfaces, which requires expression of genes for matrix production. The transcription of these genes is activated by regulatory protein ...
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Open AccessA phase diagram for bacterial swarming
Bacterial swarming is a rapid mass-migration, in which thousands of cells spread collectively to colonize surfaces. Physically, swarming is a natural example for active particles that use energy to generate mo...
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Open AccessFliS/flagellin/FliW heterotrimer couples type III secretion and flagellin homeostasis
Flagellin is amongst the most abundant proteins in flagellated bacterial species and constitutes the major building block of the flagellar filament. The proteins FliW and FliS serve in the post-transcriptional...
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Open AccessA structural model of flagellar filament switching across multiple bacterial species
The bacterial flagellar filament has long been studied to understand how a polymer composed of a single protein can switch between different supercoiled states with high cooperativity. Here we present near-ato...
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The Microbial Olympics 2016
Following the success of the inaugural games, the Microbial Olympics return with a new series of events and microbial competitors. The games may have moved to a new hosting venue, but the dedication to trainin...
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Open AccessMulti-species integrative biclustering
We describe an algorithm, multi-species cMonkey, for the simultaneous biclustering of heterogeneous multiple-species data collections and apply the algorithm to a group of bacteria containing Bacillus subtilis, B...
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A field guide to bacterial swarming motility
Swarming motility is operationally defined as multicellular, flagella-mediated surface migration of bacteria. Swarming requires intercellular interactions, sur...
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Open AccessA defined medium to investigate sliding motility in a Bacillus subtilis flagella-less mutant
We have recently shown that undomesticated strains of Bacillus subtilis can extensively colonize the surfaces of rich, semi-solid media, by a flagellum-independent mechanism and suggested that sliding motility is...
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Catabolite regulation in a diauxic strain and a nondiauxic strain of Streptococcus bovis
Streptococcus bovis JB1 utilized glucose preferentially to lactose and grew diauxically, but S. bovis 581AXY2 grew nondiauxically and used glucose preferentially only when the glucose concentration was very high ...
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Inducer Expulsion Is Not a Determinant of Diauxic Growth in Streptococcus bovis
When Streptococcus bovis JB1 was repeatedly transferred in a medium that contained the non-metabolizable glucose analog, 2-deoxyglucose, it lost its phosphotransferase system (PTS) for glucose but was still able...
