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basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 28086088.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.024.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Bacillus subtilis