Surface Hydrophilicity Promotes Bacterial Twitching Motility
Megan T. O’Hara, Tori M. Shimozono, Keane J. Dye, David Harris, Zhaomin Yang
This paper shows that bile salts and detergents enhance bacterial twitching motility by altering surface hydrophilicity, not by causing physiological stress.
mSphere · Aug 28, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology