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Gliding motility in apicomplexan parasites

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2015
Apicomplexan parasites, including Plasmodium and Toxoplasma, employ a unique form of substrate-dependent locomotion known as gliding motility. In these obligate, intracellular parasites, gliding motility is used for migration through the tissues and cells of the host, for active penetration of the host cell, and, at times, for proactive egress from the
Matthew B Heintzelman
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Gliding motility in cyanobacteria: observations and possible explanations

Archives of Microbiology, 2000
Cyanobacteria are a morphologically diverse group of phototrophic prokaryotes that are capable of a peculiar type of motility characterized as gliding. Gliding motility requires contact with a solid surface and occurs in a direction parallel to the long axis of the cell or filament.
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The elusive engine in Myxococcus xanthus gliding motility

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2007
Bacterial motility is essential for chemotaxis, virulence and complex social interactions leading to biofilm and fruiting body formation. Although bacterial swimming in liquids with a flagellum is well understood, little is known regarding bacterial movements across solid surfaces.
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Gliding motility of Mycoplasma pulmonis

Journal of Bacteriology, 1977
The gliding movements of freshly isolated Mycoplasma pulmonis cells were observed and measured. The motile cells had a characteristic appearance, an average speed of 0.4 to 0.7 micron/s, and a maximum speed of 1 micron/s.
W, Bredt, U, Radestock
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Polymer confinement and bacterial gliding motility

The European Physical Journal E, 2005
Cyanobacteria and myxobacteria use slime secretion for gliding motility over surfaces. The slime is produced by the nozzle-like pores located on the bacteria surface. To understand the mechanism of gliding motion and its relation to slime polymerization, we have performed molecular dynamics simulations of a molecular nozzle with growing inside polymer ...
J, Jeon, A V, Dobrynin
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Genetics of gliding motility and development in Myxococcus xanthus

Archives of Microbiology, 1995
Successful development in multicellular eukaryotes requires cell-cell communication and the coordinated spatial and temporal movements of cells. The complex array of networks required to bring eukaryotic development to fruition can be modeled by the development of the simpler prokaryote Myxococcus xanthus. As part of its life cycle, M.
P L, Hartzell, P, Youderian
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Isolation and Visualization of Gliding Motility Machinery in Bacteroidota

2023
Many members of the phylum Bacteroidota (formerly called Bacteroidetes) adhere to and move on solid surfaces. This type of bacterial motility is called gliding and does not involve the conventional bacterial motility machinery, such as flagella and pili.
Satoshi, Shibata, Daisuke, Nakane
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Gliding Motility of Bacteria

BioScience, 1980
Motile bacteria move about in their environments by one of two means: swimming, powered by the rotation of one or more flagella (Silverman and Simon 1977), or gliding, the mechanism(s) of which is open to speculation. Gliding motility is a form of surface-associated, active, translocational movement by bacteria.
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Gliding Motility Factors on the Move

Science's STKE, 2005
Little is known about the directional determinants of so-called gliding motility in bacteria. Mignot et al. now show that FrzS, a protein essential for pilus-based gliding motility in Myxococcus xanthus , moves in an oscillatory pattern by disassembling and reassembling clusters at the cell ...
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