(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly all motile bacteria can sense and respond to their surroundings—finding food, avoiding poisons, and targeting cells to infect, for example—through a process called chemotaxis.

Bacterial chemoreceptors organize into large clusters at the cell poles. Despite a wealth of structural and biochemical information on the system’s components, it is not clear how chemoreceptor ...

Campylobacter jejuni is now recognized as the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans throughout the world, representing a considerable drain on economic and public resources 1,2. The ...

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, researchers have for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors -- the receptors that sense and respond to ...

Researchers from the University of Missouri are studying potential therapies to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and ...