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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Free-swimming bacteria transcriptionally respond to shear flow.

Ashwin Ramachandran, Howard A Stone, Zemer Gitai

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Environmental science & technology · 2026
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  5. Flagellum-driven motility enhancesApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ashwin RamachandranDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Howard A StoneDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0002-9670-0639
Zemer GitaiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

Funding

NSF (NSF) MCB 2033020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surface-attached cells can sense and respond to shear flow, but planktonic (free-swimming) cells are typically assumed to be oblivious to any flow that carries them. Here, we find that planktonic bacteria can transcriptionally respond to flow, inducing expression changes that are beneficial in flow. Specifically, we use microfluidic experiments and quantitative modeling to show that in the presence of flow, planktonic

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialOxygenPseudomonas aeruginosaQuorum SensingModels, BiologicalPlanktonTranscription, GeneticOxygenbacteriamechanobiologymicrofluidicsplanktonicsignalling

Identifiers

PMID39383001
PMCPMC11494325

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