Staying in Touch while on the Go

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• 作者：Kerwyn Casey Huang¹ ; ² ; ^{kchuang@stanford.edu}
• 刊名：Cell
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：12 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：168
• 期：1-2
• 页码：15-17
• 全文大小：350 K
• 卷排序：168

文摘

While chemical forms of cell-to-cell communication are well recognized to coordinate bacterial populations, electrical signaling has been relatively ignored. Humphries et al. show that Bacillus subtilis biofilms utilize potassium production to attract far away, motile cells of even phylogenetically distant species by altering their membrane potential.