Gliding Motility and Expression of Motility-Related Genes in Spreading and Non-spreading Colonies of Flavobacterium columnare [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Gliding motility facilitates the movement of bacteria along surfaces in many Bacteroidetes species and results in spreading colonies. The adhesins required for the gliding are secreted through a gliding motility-associated protein secretion system, known
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Mechanisms for bacterial gliding motility on soft substrates [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 The motility mechanism of certain prokaryotes has long been a mystery, since their motion, known as gliding, involves no external appendages. The physical principles behind gliding still remain poorly understood. Using myxobacteria as an example of such organisms, we identify here the physical principles behind gliding motility and develop a ...
Joel Tchoufag +2 more
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Gliding motility of <i>Plasmodium</i> merozoites. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance Plasmodium malaria parasites use a unique substrate-dependent locomotion, termed gliding motility, to migrate through tissues and invade cells. Previously, it was thought that the small labile invasive stages that invade erythrocytes, merozoites, use this motility solely to ...
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Differential gliding motility responses of Chryseobacterium sp. strain PMSZPI isolated from uranium ore deposit on hard and soft substrates [PDF]
Current Research in Microbial SciencesThe Bacteroidota bacterium, Chryseobacterium sp. strain PMSZPI isolated from sub-surface soil of uranium ore deposit was shown to move on solid surfaces via gliding motility resulting in the formation of thin spreading colonies.
Lalitharashmi Yermunja, Celin Acharya
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A shared mechanism for Bacteroidota protein transport and gliding motility [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsBacteria of the phylum Bacteroidota are major human commensals and pathogens in addition to being abundant members of the wider biosphere. Bacteroidota move by gliding and they export proteins using the Type 9 Secretion System (T9SS).
Xiaolong Liu +6 more
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Origin and arrangement of actin filaments for gliding motility in apicomplexan parasites revealed by cryo-electron tomography [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The phylum Apicomplexa comprises important eukaryotic parasites that invade host tissues and cells using a unique mechanism of gliding motility. Gliding is powered by actomyosin motors that translocate host-attached surface adhesins along the parasite ...
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Effects of surface passivation on gliding motility assays. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In this study, we report differences in the observed gliding speed of microtubules dependent on the choice of bovine casein used as a surface passivator. We observed differences in both speed and support of microtubules in each of the assays.
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Gliding motility of the diatom Craspedostauros australis coincides with the intracellular movement of raphid-specific myosins [PDF]
Communications BiologyRaphid diatoms are one of the few eukaryotes capable of gliding motility, which is remarkably fast and allows for quasi-instantaneous directional reversals.
Metin G. Davutoglu +9 more
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Structures of the Type IX Secretion/Gliding Motility Motor from across the Phylum Bacteroidetes [PDF]
mBio, 2022 Gliding motility using cell surface adhesins, and export of proteins by the type IX secretion system (T9SS) are two phylum-specific features of the Bacteroidetes.
Rory Hennell James +4 more
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Dynamic proton-dependent motors power type IX secretion and gliding motility in Flavobacterium. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2022 Motile bacteria usually rely on external apparatus like flagella for swimming or pili for twitching. By contrast, gliding bacteria do not rely on obvious surface appendages to move on solid surfaces.
Maxence S Vincent +10 more
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