Multiple functions of flagellar motility and chemotaxis in bacterial physiology

R Colin, B Ni, L Laganenka… - FEMS microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Most swimming bacteria are capable of following gradients of nutrients, signaling molecules
and other environmental factors that affect bacterial physiology. This tactic behavior became …

Harnessing root exudates for plant microbiome engineering and stress resistance in plants

MS Afridi, A Kumar, MA Javed, A Dubey… - Microbiological …, 2024 - Elsevier
A wide range of abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant's growth and production.
Under stress, one of the main responses of plants is the modulation of exudates excreted in …

Chemotaxis of beneficial rhizobacteria to root exudates: the first step towards root–microbe rhizosphere interactions

H Feng, R Fu, X Hou, Y Lv, N Zhang, Y Liu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chemotaxis, the ability of motile bacteria to direct their movement in gradients of attractants
and repellents, plays an important role during the rhizosphere colonization by rhizobacteria …

Root colonization by beneficial rhizobacteria

Y Liu, Z Xu, L Chen, W Xun, X Shu… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Rhizosphere microbes play critical roles for plant's growth and health. Among them, the
beneficial rhizobacteria have the potential to be developed as the biofertilizer or …

Structural insights into the signalling mechanisms of two-component systems

F Jacob-Dubuisson, A Mechaly, JM Betton… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Two-component systems reprogramme diverse aspects of microbial physiology in response
to environmental cues. Canonical systems are composed of a transmembrane sensor …

A catalogue of signal molecules that interact with sensor kinases, chemoreceptors and transcriptional regulators

MA Matilla, F Velando, D Martín-Mora… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria have evolved many different signal transduction systems that sense signals and
generate a variety of responses. Generally, most abundant are transcriptional regulators …

The effect of bacterial chemotaxis on host infection and pathogenicity

MA Matilla, T Krell - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Chemotaxis enables microorganisms to move according to chemical gradients. Although
this process requires substantial cellular energy, it also affords key physiological benefits …

Microbial degradation of naphthalene and substituted naphthalenes: metabolic diversity and genomic insight for bioremediation

B Mohapatra, PS Phale - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Low molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) like naphthalene and
substituted naphthalenes (methylnaphthalene, naphthoic acids, 1-naphthyl N …

Stimulus sensing and signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis

S Bi, V Sourjik - Current opinion in microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Motile bacteria use chemotaxis to migrate towards environments that are favorable for
growth and survival. The signaling pathway that mediates this behavior is largely conserved …

Chemotaxis and autoinducer-2 signalling mediate colonization and contribute to co-existence of Escherichia coli strains in the murine gut

L Laganenka, JW Lee, L Malfertheiner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacteria communicate and coordinate their behaviour at the intra-and interspecies levels by
producing and sensing diverse extracellular small molecules called autoinducers …