ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Cargo transport shapes the spatial organization of a microbial community.
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Abstract
The human microbiome is an assemblage of diverse bacteria that interact with one another to form communities. Bacteria in a given community are arranged in a 3D matrix with many degrees of freedom. Snapshots of the community display well-defined structures, but the steps required for their assembly are not understood. Here, we show that this construction is carried out with the help of gliding bacteria. Gliding is defined as the motion of cells over a solid or semisolid surface without the necessity of growth or the aid of pili or flagella. Genomic analysis suggests that gliding bacteria are present in human microbial communities. We focus on
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