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Filamentous structures in the cell envelope are associated with bacteroidetes gliding machinery
Communications Biology, 2023 Electron microscopic visualization and movement analysis of the gliding machinery in Bacteroidetes provide insights into the mechanism of gliding motility, or the ability of these microbes to move on solid surfaces.
Satoshi Shibata +10 more
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A nanoengine for gliding motility [PDF]
Molecular Microbiology, 2006 SummaryThe terminal organelle present in some mycoplasma species is a very large, complex, flexible structure involved in cell adherence, motility and cell division. In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, Hasselbring and Krause report on a mutant in which the terminal organelle is only weakly connected to the rest of the cell.
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Uncovering the Mystery of Gliding Motility in the Myxobacteria [PDF]
Annual Review of Genetics, 2011 Bacterial gliding motility is the smooth movement of cells on solid surfaces unaided by flagella or pili. Many diverse groups of bacteria exhibit gliding, but the mechanism of gliding motility has remained a mystery since it was first observed more than a century ago. Recent studies on the motility of Myxococcus xanthus, a soil myxobacterium, suggest a
Beiyan, Nan, David R, Zusman
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Evolutionarily divergent, unstable filamentous actin is essential for gliding motility in apicomplexan parasites. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2011 Apicomplexan parasites rely on a novel form of actin-based motility called gliding, which depends on parasite actin polymerization, to migrate through their hosts and invade cells.
Kristen M Skillman +5 more
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mSphere, 2021 Gliding motility plays a central role in the life cycle of T ...
Pramod K. Rompikuntal +5 more
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Gliding motility and polarized slime secretion [PDF]
Molecular Microbiology, 2006 SummaryMyxococcus leaves a trail of slime on agar as it moves. A filament of slime can be seen attached to the end of a cell, but it is seen only at one end at any particular moment. To identify genes essential for A motility, transposon insertion mutations with defective A motility were studied.
Rosa, Yu, Dale, Kaiser
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Nature Communications, 2022 The structure of subpellicular microtubules (SPMTs) nucleated from the apical polar ring (APR) is essential for Plasmodium parasite morphogenesis, gliding motility, and invasion. Here, Qian et al. characterize the function of APR2 protein in P.
Pengge Qian +11 more
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Calcium requirement for gliding motility in myxobacteria [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1989 The ability to glide on a solid surface was inducible by calcium ion in Stigmatella aurantiaca. The induction of motility but not motility itself was prevented by chloramphenicol and erythromycin. Calcium ion was also required for cells to glide, even when they were previously induced.
B J, Womack, D F, Gilmore, D, White
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The Carboxy-Terminal Region of Flavobacterium johnsoniae SprB Facilitates Its Secretion by the Type IX Secretion System and Propulsion by the Gliding Motility Machinery [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 2019 Yongtao Zhu, Mark J Mcbride
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Gliding motility of Cytophaga sp. strain U67 [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1982 Video techniques were used to analyze the motion of the gliding bacterium Cytophaga sp. strain U67. Cells moved singly on glass along the long axis at a speed of about 2 micrometers/s, advancing, retreating, stopping, pivoting about a pole, or flipping over. They did not flex or roll. Cells of different lengths moved at about the same speed.
Lapidus, I. Richard, Berg, Howard
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