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SUBMITTER: Ikeda T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7048735 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ikeda Tetsuya T Shinagawa Toshie T Ito Takuya T Ohno Yuta Y Kubo Akiko A Nishi Junichiro J Gotoh Yasuhiro Y Ogura Yoshitoshi Y Ooka Tadasuke T Hayashi Tetsuya T
Communications biology 20200228 1
Bacteria use flagella as propellers to move to favorable environments. Escherichia albertii, a growing cause of foodborne illness and diarrhea, is reportedly non-motile and lacks flagella on its surface. Here, we report that 27 out of 59 E. albertii strains, collected mainly from humans and birds, showed swimming motility when cultured at low osmotic pressure. The biosynthesis of flagella in E. albertii cells was induced under ambient temperature and hypoosmotic pressure: conditions which resemb ...[more]