Chemotaxis

Known as: taxis in response to chemical stimulus, chemotropism, Chemotactic Process 
The directed movement of a motile cell or organism, or the directed growth of a cell guided by a specific chemical concentration gradient. Movement… (More)
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Making sense of it all: bacterial chemotaxis
Bacteria must be able to respond to a changing environment, and one way to respond is to move. The transduction of sensory… (More)
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Chemotaxis: signalling the way forward
During random locomotion, human neutrophils and Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae repeatedly extend and retract cytoplasmic… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Spatial and Temporal Regulation of 3-Phosphoinositides by PI 3-Kinase and PTEN Mediates Chemotaxis
We have investigated the mechanisms of leading edge formation in chemotaxing Dictyostelium cells. We demonstrate that while… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Receptor sensitivity in bacterial chemotaxis.
Chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli are coupled to the flagella by a labile phosphorylated intermediate, CheY approximately P. Its… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Prostaglandin D2 Selectively Induces Chemotaxis in T Helper Type 2 Cells, Eosinophils, and Basophils via Seven-Transmembrane Receptor Crth2
Prostaglandin (PG)D2, which has long been implicated in allergic diseases, is currently considered to elicit its biological… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Robust perfect adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through integral feedback control.
Integral feedback control is a basic engineering strategy for ensuring that the output of a system robustly tracks its desired… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
Networks of interacting proteins orchestrate the responses of living cells to a variety of external stimuli, but how sensitive is… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The fundamental role of pirouettes in Caenorhabditis elegans chemotaxis.
To investigate the behavioral mechanism of chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans, we recorded the instantaneous position, speed… (More)
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
LEUKOCYTE LOCOMOTION AND CHEMOTAXIS
Polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) locomotion and chemotaxis have been evaluated by direct microscopic observation of individual… (More)
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Model for chemotaxis.
The chemotactic response of unicellular microscopic organisms is viewed as analogous to Brownian motion. Local assessments of… (More)
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