SnapShot: Comunicación electroquímica en las biopelículas

Dong-Yeon D Lee1, Arthur Prindle1, Jintao Liu1

  • 1Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Cell
|July 1, 2017
PubMed
Resumen

La electrofisiología, el estudio de las propiedades eléctricas en los sistemas vivos, se está expandiendo más allá de la neurociencia. Descubrimientos recientes muestran que las bacterias usan señales electroquímicas para la coordinación de la comunidad, definiendo el nuevo campo de la electrofisiología bacteriana de biofilms.

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