| Literature DB >> 28622518 |
Elizabeth A Libby1, Jonathan Dworkin2.
Abstract
How do neighboring bacterial biofilms sense and communicate with each other? In a recent paper, Liu et al. (2017) demonstrate how electrical signaling allows communication of metabolic states between adjacent B. subtilis biofilms, providing a possible generalizable mechanism for communication in multispecies biofilms with interdependent metabolism.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28622518 PMCID: PMC5820771 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.05.036
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell ISSN: 1097-2765 Impact factor: 17.970