Feedback control architecture and the bacterial chemotaxis network.

Bacteria move towards favourable and away from toxic environments by changing their swimming pattern. This response is regulated by the chemotaxis signalling pathway, which has an important feature: it uses feedback to 'reset' (adapt) the bacterial sensing ability, which allows the bacteri...

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Main Authors: Abdullah Hamadeh, Mark A J Roberts, Elias August, Patrick E McSharry, Philip K Maini, Judith P Armitage, Antonis Papachristodoulou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3088647?pdf=render