Stochastic pulsing of gene expression enables the generation of spatial patterns in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

Stochastic pulsing of gene expression can generate phenotypic diversity in a genetically identical population of cells. Here, the authors show that stochastic pulsing in the expression of a sigma factor enables the formation of spatial patterns in a multicellular system, Bacillus subtilis bacterial...

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Main Authors: Eugene Nadezhdin, Niall Murphy, Neil Dalchau, Andrew Phillips, James C. W. Locke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14431-9