FlhF is required for swarming motility and full pathogenicity of Bacillus cereus

Besides sporulation, Bacillus cereus can undergo a differentiation process in which short swimmer cells become elongated and hyperflagellated swarmer cells that favor migration of the bacterial community on a surface. The functionally enigmatic flagellar protein FlhF, which is the third paralog of t...

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Main Authors: Diletta Mazzantini, Francesco Celandroni, Sara Salvetti, Sokhna Aissatou Gueye, Antonella Lupetti, Sonia Senesi, Emilia Ghelardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01644/full