Researchers have identified MCP4250, the first biochemically characterized chemoreceptor that mediates bacterial chemotaxis toward halogenated nitrophenols, revealing that the receptor works by ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly all motile bacteria can sense and respond to their surroundings—finding food, avoiding poisons, and targeting cells to infect, for example—through a process called chemotaxis.

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors—the receptors ...

Researchers from the University of Missouri are studying potential therapies to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and ...

Despite the prevailing evidence of chemoreceptor dysfunction in systemic arterial hypertension, the contribution of peripheral chemoreceptors to sympathetic activation in untreated patients with ...

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, researchers have for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors -- the receptors that sense and respond to ...