Table II.
Behavior of Aer mutants with altered pre-stimulus swimming bias.a
Response time (s) | Rotation
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Aer | O2↑ | O2↓ | patternb |
wild type | 158 ± 16 | 24 ± 7 |
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N34C | 24 ± 5 | 12 ± 3 |
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F66C | 52 ± 11 | 11 ± 4 |
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N85C | 32 ± 8 | 10 ± 4 |
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Response times were determined as described in Table I.
Rotation of unstimulated tethered cells was observed for 15s. The histogram represents the number of cells that rotated 100% CCW, >50% CCW, randomly, >50% CW, 100% CW.