'Death screams' of swarming bacteria help their comrades survive antibiotic attacks
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it work . Swarmingbacteria"scream " when they die , warning neighboring bacterium of peril . These destruction shrieks are n’t audible ; rather , they are chemic alarms that the bacterium broadcast while on the brink of death , an action known as necrosignaling . AcrA proteins (red) bind to the outer membranes of E....