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ORGANISM(S): Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium
SUBMITTER: Michael McClelland
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1632 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
The EMBO journal 20050505 11
We have uncovered a new role for the bacterial flagellum in sensing external wetness. An investigation into why mutants in the chemotaxis signaling pathway of Salmonella typhimurium exhibit fewer and shorter flagella than wild-type when propagated on a surface, first showed that the mutants downregulate only a small set of genes on swarm media--class 3 or 'late' motility genes, and genes associated with the pathogenicity island SPI-1 TTSS (type three secretion system). Based on observations that ...[more]