Bacteria slingshot more on soft surfaces
2014
Pseudomonas aeruginosa migrate by deploying their type-IV pili. Here, Zhang et al. show that P. aeruginosa can adapt to the physical microenvironment by using their type-IV pili to ‘slingshot’ more across soft surfaces to exploit inherent shear thinning properties of the surface.
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