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SUBMITTER: Makarchuk S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739365 | biostudies-other | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Makarchuk Stanislaw S Braz Vasco C VC Araújo Nuno A M NAM Ciric Lena L Volpe Giorgio G
Nature communications 20190911 1
How motile bacteria move near a surface is a problem of fundamental biophysical interest and is key to the emergence of several phenomena of biological, ecological and medical relevance, including biofilm formation. Solid boundaries can strongly influence a cell's propulsion mechanism, thus leading many flagellated bacteria to describe long circular trajectories stably entrapped by the surface. Experimental studies on near-surface bacterial motility have, however, neglected the fact that real en ...[more]