Evidence of a possible multicellular life cycle in Escherichia coli

作者：Devina Puri, Xin Fang, Kyle R. Allison · 发表于：iScience · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.isci.2022.105795 · 被引用次数：23 · 研究领域：Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

, a unicellular organism, can follow a multistage, clonal, genetically-regulated, rosette-initiated multicellular life cycle. These findings have implications for synthetic biology, multicellular development, and the treatment and prevention of bacterial diseases.