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eLife, 2014 Lipopolysaccharide molecules released by the bacteria Vibrio fischeri when it rotates its flagella prompts its host, the Hawaiian bobtail squid, to prepare for its arrival.
Karen Guillemin, Annah S Rolig
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 Vibrio alginolyticus, one of the prevalently harmful Vibrio species found in the ocean, causes significant economic damage in the shrimp farming industry. Its flagellum serves as a crucial virulence factor in the invasion of host organisms.
Jingwen Zhang +21 more
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Entropy driven formation of a chiral liquid crystalline phase of helical filaments [PDF]
, 2005 We study the liquid crystalline phase behavior of a concentrated suspension of helical flagella isolated from {\it Salmonella typhimurium}. Flagella are prepared with different polymorphic states, some of which have a pronounced helical character while others assume a rod-like shape. We show that the static phase behavior and dynamics of chiral helices
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Flagellar number governs bacterial spreading and transport efficiency [PDF]
Science Advances 4, eaar6425 (2018), 2019 Peritrichous bacteria synchronize and bundle their flagella to actively swim while disruption of the bundle leads to tumbling. It is still not known whether the number of flagella represents an evolutionary adaptation towards optimizing bacterial navigation. Here, we study the swimming dynamics of differentially flagellated Bacillus subtilis strains in
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MicrobiologyOpen, 2019 Giardia lamblia is a unicellular organism with two nuclei, a median body, eight flagella, and an adhesive disk. γ‐Tubulin is a microtubule (MT)‐nucleating protein that functions in the γ‐tubulin small complex (γ‐TuSC) in budding yeast.
Juri Kim, Soon‐Jung Park
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Viruses, 2021 Campylobacter jejuni is a Gram-negative foodborne pathogen that causes diarrheal disease and is associated with severe post-infectious sequelae. Bacteriophages (phages) are a possible means of reducing Campylobacter colonization in poultry to prevent ...
Jessica C. Sacher +6 more
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Shapes enhancing the propulsion of multiflagellated helical microswimmers [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 In this paper we are interested in optimizing the shape of multi-flagellated helical microswimmers. Mimicking the propagation of helical waves along the flagella, they self-propel by rotating their tails. The swimmer's dynamics is computed using the Boundary Element Method, implemented in the open source Matlab library $Gypsilab$. We exploit a Bayesian
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An Overview of Helicobacter pylori Survival Tactics in the Hostile Human Stomach Environment
Microorganisms, 2021 Helicobacter pylori is well established as a causative agent for gastritis, peptic ulcer, and gastric cancer. Armed with various inimitable virulence factors, this Gram-negative bacterium is one of few microorganisms that is capable of circumventing the ...
Yi Ying Cheok +6 more
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eLife, 2017 Intraflagellar transport (IFT) trains, multimegadalton assemblies of IFT proteins and motors, traffic proteins in cilia. To study how trains assemble, we employed fluorescence protein-tagged IFT proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Jenna L Wingfield +14 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Many bacterial pathogens display glycosylated surface structures that contribute to virulence, and targeting these structures is a viable strategy for pathogen control.
Jessica C. Sacher +11 more
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