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标题：Osmotaxis in Escherichia coli through changes in motor speed
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作者：Jerko Rosko ; Vincent A. Martinez ; Wilson C. K. Poon 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2017
卷号：114
期号：38
页码：E7969-E7976
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1620945114
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Bacterial motility, and in particular repulsion or attraction toward specific chemicals, has been a subject of investigation for over 100 years, resulting in detailed understanding of bacterial chemotaxis and the corresponding sensory network in many bacterial species. For Escherichia coli most of the current understanding comes from the experiments with low levels of chemotactically active ligands. However, chemotactically inactive chemical species at concentrations found in the human gastrointestinal tract produce significant changes in E. coli’s osmotic pressure and have been shown to lead to taxis. To understand how these nonspecific physical signals influence motility, we look at the response of individual bacterial flagellar motors under stepwise changes in external osmolarity. We combine these measurements with a population swimming assay under the same conditions. Unlike for chemotactic response, a long-term increase in swimming/motor speeds is observed, and in the motor rotational bias, both of which scale with the osmotic shock magnitude. We discuss how the speed changes we observe can lead to steady-state bacterial accumulation.
关键词：osmotaxis ; bacterial flagellar motor ; single-motor experiments ; bacterial swimming ; bacterial taxis