Quantitative Analysis of Bacterial Migration in Chemotaxis (original) (raw)

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THERE are a number of parallels between the chemotactic response of bacteria and the process of chemoreception in higher organisms1, 2. Because of this analogy, the chemotactic response presents an unusual opportunity in a simple system for delineating some of the features of a receptor system. Adler and co-workers3–5, for example, have made particularly important advances in studies on Escherichia coli which indicate that (a) the galactose binding protein6, 7 is the receptor which triggers the chemotactic response5, and (b) the response occurs with non-metabolizableanalogues of galactose3.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
    F. W. DAHLQUIST, P. LOVELY & D. E. KOSHLAND JUN.

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  1. F. W. DAHLQUIST
  2. P. LOVELY
  3. D. E. KOSHLAND JUN.

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DAHLQUIST, F., LOVELY, P. & KOSHLAND, D. Quantitative Analysis of Bacterial Migration in Chemotaxis.Nature New Biology 236, 120–123 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio236120a0

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