Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

Nutrient and salt depletion synergistically boosts glucose metabolism in individual Escherichia coli cells

  • Georgina Glover,
  • Margaritis Voliotis,
  • Urszula Łapińska,
  • Brandon M. Invergo,
  • Darren Soanes,
  • Paul O’Neill,
  • Karen Moore,
  • Nela Nikolic,
  • Peter G. Petrov,
  • David S. Milner,
  • Sumita Roy,
  • Kate Heesom,
  • Thomas A. Richards,
  • Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova,
  • Stefano Pagliara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03336-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The combined nutritional and salinity limitation is shown to increase glucose uptake and degradation rates in individual E. coli bacteria.