Identification of Positive Chemotaxis in the Protozoan Pathogen Trypanosoma brucei
mSphere, 2020 To complete its infectious cycle, the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei must navigate through diverse tissue environments in both its tsetse fly and mammalian hosts. This is hypothesized to be driven by yet unidentified chemotactic cues.
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Mechanisms involved in human eosinophil chemotaxis induced by the newly cloned C-C chemokine eotaxin
Allergology International, 1998 The present study was performed in order to investigate the mechanism(s) involved in eotaxin-induced normal human eosinophil chemotaxis using a 48-well micro-chemotaxis chamber assay.
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Supracellular contraction at the rear of neural crest cell groups drives collective chemotaxis
Science, 2018 Supracellular cable drives collective cell movement Neural crest cells migrate far and wide through a vertebrate embryo during development. Shellard et al. used Xenopus and zebrafish embryos to study how these clumps of mesenchymal cells migrate (see the
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Biomixing by chemotaxis and efficiency of biological reactions: the critical reaction case
, 2012 Many phenomena in biology involve both reactions and chemotaxis. These processes can clearly influence each other, and chemotaxis can play an important role in sustaining and speeding up the reaction.
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Dispersal and Repulsion of Entomopathogenic Nematodes to Prenol. [PDF]
, 2019 Chemosensory cues are crucial for entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs)-a guild of insect-killing parasitic nematodes that are used as biological control agents against a variety of agricultural pests.
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
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Counterclockwise rotation of the flagellum promotes biofilm initiation in Helicobacter pylori
mBioMotility promotes biofilm initiation during the early steps of this process: microbial surface association and attachment. Motility is controlled in part by chemotaxis signaling, so it seems reasonable that chemotaxis may also affect biofilm formation ...
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Singly Flagellated
mBio, 2016 Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen that has long been known to chemotax. More recently, it has been established that chemotaxis is an important factor in the ability of P. aeruginosa to make biofilms. Genes that allow P. aeruginosa
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Potential therapeutic targeting of BKCa channels in glioblastoma treatment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review summarizes current insights into the role of BKCa and mitoBKCa channels in glioblastoma biology, their potential classification as oncochannels, and the emerging pharmacological strategies targeting these channels, emphasizing the translational challenges in developing BKCa‐directed therapies for glioblastoma treatment.
Kamila Maliszewska‐Olejniczak +4 more
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eLife, 2021 The canonical chemotaxis network modulates the bias for a particular direction of rotation in the bacterial flagellar motor to help the cell migrate toward favorable chemical environments.
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