Who's the boss? One-way conversations between bacteria.
Bacteria communicate via extracellular signals. Most signaling studied so far has been bidirectional. A recent study shows that when Bacillus subtilis build a multicellular biofilm, some conversations are unidirectional.
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. kroos@msu.edu
D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000502:physiology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018441:Biofilms; D019899:Paracrine Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C087040:ComX protein, Bacillus subtilis