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Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39019-x Cite This Page : ...
Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model ...
But unlike us, these bacteria do not spend a long time wooing the cell in the hope that it will welcome them in. Instead, ...
Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent signals when a cell becomes competent, allowing the researchers to track how the strategy ...
This organism, named Candidatus Uabimicrobium helgolandensis, is a single-celled organism that can do things that bacteria were thought to not be able to do, including "eating" other cells like a ...
Bacteria cells in colonies that had previously swarmed were more prone to swarm again than those that hadn't, and their offspring followed suit for at least four generations—about two hours. On ...
image: Bacteria with organelles called carboxysomes stained in cyan. Magenta indicates positioning systems organizing the cell. view more Credit: Vecchiarelli lab, University of Michigan ...