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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2011

Signal processing in complex chemotaxis pathways.

Steven L Porter, George H Wadhams, Judith P Armitage

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 242 papers.

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242citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

242 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The dynamic response of the bacterial flagellar motor to its direct intracellular input signal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Genome Mining ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  10. Perspective on Interdisciplinary Approaches on Chemotaxis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  11. Flagellar location determines the stability of bacterial surface entrapment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Insights into Chemoreceptor MCP2201-Sensing D-Malate.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  17. Swarm Autonomy: From Agent Functionalization to Machine Intelligence.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  20. Repurposing a Catalytic Cycle for Transient Self-Assembly.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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182 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steven L PorterBiosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QD, UK.
George H Wadhams
Judith P Armitage

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria use chemotaxis to migrate towards environments that are better for growth. Chemoreceptors detect changes in attractant levels and signal through two-component systems to control swimming direction. This basic pathway is conserved across all chemotactic bacteria and archaea; however, recent work combining systems biology and genome sequencing has started to elucidate the additional complexity of the process in many bacterial species. This article focuses on one of the best understood complex networks, which is found in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and integrates sensory data about the external environment and the metabolic state of the cell to produce a balanced response at the flagellar motor.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsChemotaxisEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialRhodobacter sphaeroidesSignal TransductionBacterial Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21283116

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