a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
Examples of 'chemoattractant' in a sentence
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Chemokines are a superfamily of low-molecular-weight cytokines that were initially described for their chemoattractant activity.
Adriano LS Souza, Silvio R Sousa-Pereira, Mauro M Teixeira, José R Lambertucci, AntonioL Teixeira 2006, 'The role of chemokines in Schistosoma mansoni infection: insights from human diseaseand murine models', Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762006000900054. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We show that chemoattractant degradation creates steep local gradients.
Luke Tweedy, David A Knecht, Gillian M Mackay, Robert H Insall 2016, 'Self-Generated Chemoattractant Gradients: Attractant Depletion Extends the Range andRobustness of Chemotaxis.', PLoS Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4794234?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The endothelial cells secrete a chemoattractant, which attracts other endothelial cells.
Roeland M H Merks, Erica D Perryn, Abbas Shirinifard, James A Glazier 2008, 'Contact-inhibited chemotaxis in de novo and sprouting blood-vessel growth.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2528254?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)