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Flagellar Motor Transformed: Biophysical Perspectives of the Myxococcus xanthus Gliding Mechanism
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Many bacteria move on solid surfaces using gliding motility, without involvement of flagella or pili. Gliding of Myxococcus xanthus is powered by a proton channel homologous to the stators in the bacterial flagellar motor. Instead of being fixed in place
Jing Chen, Beiyan Nan
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PLoS ONE, 2014 Apicomplexan parasites are thought to actively invade the host cell by gliding motility. This movement is powered by the parasite's own actomyosin system, and depends on the regulated polymerisation and depolymerisation of actin to generate the force for
Saskia Egarter +9 more
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A unique profilin-actin interface is important for malaria parasite motility. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2017 Profilin is an actin monomer binding protein that provides ATP-actin for incorporation into actin filaments. In contrast to higher eukaryotic cells with their large filamentous actin structures, apicomplexan parasites typically contain only short and ...
Catherine A Moreau +11 more
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eLife, 2017 Gliding motility allows malaria parasites to migrate and invade tissues and cells in different hosts. It requires parasite surface proteins to provide attachment to host cells and extracellular matrices. Here, we identify the Plasmodium protein LIMP (the
Jorge M Santos +11 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Colony spreading of Flavobacterium johnsoniae is shown to include gliding motility using the cell surface adhesin SprB, and is drastically affected by agar and glucose concentrations.
Keiko Sato +9 more
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MasABK proteins interact with proteins of the type IV pilin system to affect social motility of Myxococcus xanthus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Gliding motility is critical for normal development of spore-filled fruiting bodies in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Mutations in mgl block motility and development but one mgl allele can be suppressed by a mutation in masK, the last gene in an ...
Sarah Fremgen +5 more
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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2014 Members of the Flavobacterium genus are often highly abundant in the rhizosphere. Nevertheless, the physiological characteristics associated with their enhanced rhizosphere competence are currently an enigma.
Max Kolton +3 more
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Gliding Motility: The Molecules behind the Motion [PDF]
Current Biology, 2003 In apicomplexan parasites, gliding motility and host cell invasion are driven by an actomyosin-based system. Recent studies have characterized several components of the gliding motility apparatus and have provided new insight into the molecular architecture of this locomotory system.
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Structures of the Toxoplasma gliding motility adhesin [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 Significance Structures of the major adhesin in Toxoplasma show how its ligand-binding domain is displayed above the cell surface at the tip of a stalk with six elongated domains. A prodomain inhibits conformational change from closed to open. An associating protein binds to
Gaojie, Song, Timothy A, Springer
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Motility and self-organization of gliding Chlamydomonas populations
Physical Review Research, 2022 Cellular appendages such as cilia and flagella represent universal tools enabling cells and microbes, among other essential functionalities, to propel themselves in diverse environments.
Sebastian Till +4 more
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