Specialized Cell Regiments Allow Bacterial Biofilms to Stay on the Move (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Specialized Cell Regiments Allow Bacterial Biofilms to Stay on the Move (1 of 4)

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A wild-type bacterial colony stained for mobile (green) and matrix (red) elements covering a filter paper disc at different time points. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 19, 2019, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Steinberg at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel; and colleagues was titled, "The extracellular matrix protein TasA is a developmental cue that maintains a motile subpopulation within Bacillus subtilis biofilms."

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N. Steinberg <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2020)

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