Enchained growth and cluster dislocation: A possible mechanism for microbiota homeostasis.

Immunoglobulin A is a class of antibodies produced by the adaptive immune system and secreted into the gut lumen to fight pathogenic bacteria. We recently demonstrated that the main physical effect of these antibodies is to enchain daughter bacteria, i.e. to cross-link bacteria into clusters as they...

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Main Authors: Florence Bansept, Kathrin Schumann-Moor, Médéric Diard, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, Emma Slack, Claude Loverdo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006986