Illinois Featured Content

  • Researchers resolve structure of a key component of bacterial decision-making

    Dec 8, 2015 9:15 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of professor Klaus Schulten, physics graduate student Keith Cassidy, and postdoctoral researcher Juan Perilla; courtesy of Keith Cassidy

    Images

    • image of professor Klaus Schulten, physics graduate student Keith Cassidy, and postdoctoral researcher Juan Perilla; courtesy of Keith Cassidy

    Bacterial chemotaxis, the process by which a bacterium changes direction in response to environmental cues, involves a complex array of chemical receptors