Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, came to the conclusion that bacteria are able to communicate and even obedinyats.
These findings are made in the process of observing the behavior of uropathogenic Escherichia coli, ITAR -TASS. The scientists, led by Christopher Hayes even suggested that the contact may be necessary unicellular to perform certain functions.
Scientists have noticed that some growth inhibitor - CDI, the raison d'être of which they originally seen only in the destruction of other bacteria, in fact, attacking only bacteria that have a certain enzyme. In figurative comparison Hayes, it turned out, if the aggressor cell asks the target cells ...
... Our results indicate that these cells may use CDI for ...
Although in this particular case investigated only UKP, Hayes believes that his work may be applicable to other pathogens, including agents of meningitis and plague. His co-author, David Lowe says that the results are ...
Source: focus. ua.
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