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Surface Hydrophilicity Promotes Bacterial Twitching Motility
Megan T. O’Hara, Tori M. Shimozono, Keane J. Dye…·Zhaomin Yang
This paper shows that bile salts and detergents enhance bacterial twitching motility by altering surface hydrophilicity, not by causing physiological stress.
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