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Comment
. 2017 Oct 27;358(6362):446-447.
doi: 10.1126/science.aaq0143.

The bacterium has landed

Kelly T Hughes  1 , Howard C Berg  2
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The bacterium has landed

Kelly T Hughes et al. Science. .
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Figure 1
Motile bacteria can become sessile cells that adhere to and colonize a surface.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Surface sensing and attachment by Caulobacter crescentus
When a free-swimming Caulobacter bacterium encounters a surface, either the intact flagellar motor, acting as a mechanosensitive channel, or a pilus, inhibited from retraction upon surface contact, stimulates localized c-di-GMP production that results in holdfast production and surface adherence. For the flagellum, the DgcB protein is responsible for c-di-GMP production at the cell pole, which binds to the HfsJ component of the holdfast synthesis machinery.
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