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Regulatory Plasticity and Metabolic Trade-offs Drive Adaptive Evolution of Alternative Flagellar Configurations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Analí Migueles-Lozano, Merrill E. Asp, Sofia T. Rocha…·Sampriti Mukherjee
This paper shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa maintains monoflagellation via the FleQ-FleN circuit, and hyperflagellation leads to fitness defects, suggesting regulatory plasticity enables adaptive evolution of flagellar configurations.
DOI 10.1101/2025.07.29.667523