• Motility protein A (MotA), is a bacterial protein that is encoded by the motA gene. It is a component of the flagellar motor. More specifically, MotA...
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    flagella, is crucial to cell motility, for example in spermatozoa, and fluid transport, for example in trachea. The muscle protein myosin "motors" the contraction...
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    Understanding motility is important in biology, medicine, and ecology, as it impacts processes ranging from bacterial behavior to ecosystem dynamics. Motility, the...
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    films. The mechanisms of this motility are only partially known. Twitching motility also allows microorganisms to travel along a surface, but this type of...
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    Motility protein B also known as MotB is a bacterial protein that is encoded by the motB gene. It's a component of the flagellar motor. More specifically...
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    surface by the help of the ActA protein. It has been shown that ActA is not only necessary but also sufficient to induce motility of bacteria in the absence...
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    Flagellum (redirect from Flagellar motility)
    flagellum has a different structure, protein composition, and mechanism of propulsion but shares the same function of providing motility. The Latin word...
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    Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions...
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    to the protein known as autocrine motility factor (AMF). AMF produced and secreted by cancer cells and stimulates cell growth and motility as a growth...
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    sperm protein (MSP) is a nematode specific small protein of 126 amino acids with a molecular weight of 14 kDa. It is the key player in the motility machinery...
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    Bacterial motility is the ability of bacteria to move independently using metabolic energy. Most motility mechanisms that evolved among bacteria also...
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    of actin-based motility during chemotaxis, cell signalling is believed to activate cofilin, the actin-filament depolymerizing protein which binds to ADP-rich...
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    a core component of both complexes, mTOR functions as a serine/threonine protein kinase that regulates cell growth, cell proliferation, cell motility...
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  • solutions to the algorithm. Exits not visited are non-solutions. The motility proteins are either actin and myosin or kinesin and microtubules. The myosin...
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  • tract generates motility using smooth muscle subunits linked by gap junctions. These subunits fire spontaneously in either a tonic or a phasic fashion...
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    sertoli cell number, sperm motility, and sperm count. Altered cardiac energy metabolism: Prenatal nutrition, specifically protein nutrition, may affect the...
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  • concentration can also contribute to the activation of sperm motility. In some mammals, sperm motility is activated by increase in pH, calcium ion and cAMP,...
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    the proteins NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (subunit M), twitching motility protein PilT, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate-AMP ligase, ATP/GTP-binding protein, multifunctional...
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    The cytoskeleton is a complex, dynamic network of interlinking protein filaments present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including those of bacteria and...
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    Hyaluronan-mediated motility receptor (HMMR), also known as RHAMM (Receptor for Hyaluronan Mediated Motility) is a protein which in humans is encoded by...
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    visible under a microscope. Cells emerged on Earth about 4 billion years ago. All cells are capable of replication, protein synthesis, and motility. Cells are...
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    between amoeboid motility and mesenchymal motility, another form of cellular movement. Dictyostelium cells and neutrophils can also swim, using a similar mechanism...
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  • In cell biology, protein kinase C, commonly abbreviated to PKC (EC 2.7.11.13), is a family of protein kinase enzymes that are involved in controlling the...
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  • Engulfment and cell motility 3, also known as ELMO3, is a human gene. The protein encoded by this gene is similar to a C. elegans protein that functions in...
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  • the Betrayer, a 2007 video game Motility protein B, a bacterial protein motB, the gene that encodes the protein Museum of the Bible, a history museum...
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    Twitching motility is a form of crawling bacterial motility used to move over surfaces. Twitching is mediated by the activity of hair-like filaments called...
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    Engulfment and cell motility protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ELMO1 gene. ELMO1 is located on chromosome number seven in humans...
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    measure the macroscopic motility of a specimen. To perform a motility assay, semi-solid agar is inoculated with a small amount of a liquid suspension containing...
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    proteins regulate metabolic enzymes, ion channels, transporter proteins, and other parts of the cell machinery, controlling transcription, motility,...
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    Adventurous motility is as a type of gliding motility; unlike most motility mechanisms, adventurous motility does not involve a flagellum. Gliding motility usually...
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