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Aug 2026
Disrupting chemotaxis stimulates adhesion by recruiting a putative c-di-GMP effector to the Caulobacter crescentus cell pole
CmrA is identified as a key signaling link that senses flagellar motor disruption and activates second-messenger signaling to promote cell adhesion in Caulobacter crescentus, demonstrating that bacterial surface sensing is not a simple binary switch.
Rachel I. Salemi, David M. Hershey
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