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SUBMITTER: Tanaka H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863824 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tanaka Hiroto H Kazuta Yasuaki Y Naruse Yasushi Y Tominari Yukihiro Y Umehara Hiroaki H Sowa Yoshiyuki Y Sagawa Takashi T Oiwa Kazuhiro K Okada Masato M Kawagishi Ikuro I Kojima Hiroaki H
Scientific reports 20220222 1
Chemical sensing is vital to the survival of all organisms. Bacterial chemotaxis is conducted by multiple receptors that sense chemicals to regulate a single signalling system controlling the transition between the direction (clockwise vs. counterclockwise) of flagellar rotation. Such an integrated system seems better suited to judge chemicals as either favourable or unfavourable, but not for identification purposes though differences in their affinities to the receptors may cause difference in ...[more]