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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008178 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yang Yiling Y M Pollard Abiola A Höfler Carolin C Poschet Gernot G Wirtz Markus M Hell Rüdiger R Sourjik Victor V
Molecular microbiology 20150424 6
Chemotaxis enables bacteria to navigate chemical gradients in their environment, accumulating toward high concentrations of attractants and avoiding high concentrations of repellents. Although finding nutrients is likely to be an important function of bacterial chemotaxis, not all characterized attractants are nutrients. Moreover, even for potential nutrients, the exact relation between the metabolic value of chemicals and their efficiency as chemoattractants has not been systematically explored ...[more]