Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, swims in aqueous environments with a single polar flagellum. In a spatial gradient of a chemical, the bacterium can migrate in “favorable” directions, a property that is termed chemotaxis. The chemotaxis of V. cholerae is not only critical for survival in various environments and but also is implicated in pathogenicity. In this chapter, we describe how to characterize the chemotactic behaviors of V. cholerae: these methods include swarm assay, temporal stimulation assay, capillary assay, and receptor methylation assay.
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Kawagishi, I., & Nishiyama, S. I. (2017). Chemotactic behaviors of Vibrio cholerae cells. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1593, pp. 259–271). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6927-2_21
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