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Myxococcus cells respond to elastic forces in their substrate

Elasticotaxis describes the ability of Myxococcus xanthus cells to sense and to respond to elastic forces within an agar gel on which they rest. Within 5 min of the application of stress, each cell begins to reorient its long axis perpendicular to the stress force. The cells then glide in that direc...

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Auteurs principaux: Fontes, Marta, Kaiser, Dale
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The National Academy of Sciences 1999
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC22186/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10393946
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