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Bacterial motility on a surface: many ways to a common goal.
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This review focuses mainly on surface motility and makes comparisons to features shared by other surface phenomenon.Abstract:
When free-living bacteria colonize biotic or abiotic surfaces, the resultant changes in physiology and morphology have important consequences on their growth, development, and survival. Surface motility, biofilm formation, fruiting body development, and host invasion are some of the manifestations of functional responses to surface colonization. Bacteria may sense the growth surface either directly through physical contact or indirectly by sensing the proximity of fellow bacteria. Extracellular signals that elicit new gene expression include autoinducers, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and carbohydrates. This review focuses mainly on surface motility and makes comparisons to features shared by other surface phenomenon.read more
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The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms
Eric Lauga,Thomas R. Powers +1 more
TL;DR: The biophysical and mechanical principles of locomotion at the small scales relevant to cell swimming, tens of micrometers and below are reviewed, with emphasis on the simple physical picture and fundamental flow physics phenomena in this regime.
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Bacillus subtilis antibiotics: structures, syntheses and specific functions
TL;DR: The structures of all known B. subtilis antibiotics are summarized, including non‐ribosomally produced lipopeptides are involved in biofilm and swarming development, lantibiotics function as pheromones in quorum‐sensing, and a ‘killing factor’ effectuates programmed cell death in sister cells.
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Physics of microswimmers--single particle motion and collective behavior: a review.
TL;DR: The physics of locomotion of biological and synthetic microswimmers, and the collective behavior of their assemblies, are reviewed and the hydrodynamic aspects of swimming are addressed.
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Physics of Microswimmers - Single Particle Motion and Collective Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the physics of locomotion of biological and synthetic microswimmers, and the collective behavior of their assemblies, including synchronization and the concerted beating of flagella and cilia.
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Natural functions of lipopeptides from Bacillus and Pseudomonas: more than surfactants and antibiotics
TL;DR: This review gives a detailed overview of the versatile functions of lipopeptides in the biology of Pseudomonas and Bacillus species, and highlights their role in competitive interactions with coexisting organisms, including bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, protozoa, nematodes and plants.
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Function, diversity, and evolution of signal transduction in prokaryotes.
TL;DR: The main areas covered at the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST) meeting included the clustering of chemoreceptors and its significance to signal amplification, organelle biogenesis, motility, developmental responses mediated by "chemotaxis" operons, and advances in two-component signaling mechanisms as discussed by the authors.
Meeting Review Function, Diversity, and Evolution of Signal Transduction in Prokaryotes
TL;DR: Major areas covered at the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST) meeting included the clustering of chemoreceptors and its significance to signal amplification, organelle biogenesis, motility, developmental responses mediated by "chemotaxis" operons, and advances in two-component signaling mechanisms.