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1. This research was carried out to compareEscherichia coli bacteria with animals in their response tol-aspartate andl-glutamate and their analogues.
2. Various analogues of aspartate and glutamate known to be neurotransmitters at synapses were shown to be attractants forE. coli.
3. The amino acid sequences of the animal receptors and the bacterial receptor, however, have no detectable relationship. Based on the amino acid sequence, evolutionarily the two systems appear not to be related.
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Lake, E.M., Jiang, H., Blattner, F.R. et al. Analogue of aspartate and glutamate active at synapses are attractants forEscherichia coli . Cell Mol Neurobiol 15, 283–288 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02073334
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