Gliding motility is a type of translocation used by microorganisms that is independent of propulsive structures such as flagella, pili, and fimbriae. Gliding...

rotating a helical prokaryotic flagellum) gliding motility swarming motility twitching motility, a form of motility used by bacteria to crawl over surfaces...

bacteria migrating deeper via gliding motility. Researchers investigated if the CpAL/VirSR system regulates gliding motility. The study demonstrated that...

Bacterial motility is the ability of bacteria to move independently using metabolic energy. Most motility mechanisms that evolved among bacteria also...

twitching motility is derived from the characteristic jerky and irregular motions of individual cells when viewed under the microscope. Gliding motility is a...

such as Thioploca and Beggiota, have gliding motility. However, Thiomargarita cells do not have gliding motility due to their shape. The vacuoles give...

Adventurous motility is as a type of gliding motility; unlike most motility mechanisms, adventurous motility does not involve a flagellum. Gliding motility usually...

Fukushima SI, Haruta S, et al. (January 2020). "Tree of motility - A proposed history of motility systems in the tree of life". Genes to Cells. 25 (1):...

Microbiology. 111: 1–61. doi:10.1099/00221287-111-1-1. Hoiczyk, E. (2000). "Gliding motility in cyanobacteria: Observations and possible explanations". Archives...

pneumoniae cells also possess an attachment organelle, which is used in the gliding motility of the organism by an unknown mechanism. Sequencing of the M. pneumoniae...

nitrate. Beggiatoa move via gliding motility, using the excretion of mucus. The exact mechanisms of this gliding motility are unknown. In the species...

gregarines for gliding motility and for invading target cells. This makes the gregarines excellent models for studying gliding motility, with the goal...

Cytophaga myxococcoides. Gliding motility, which is present throughout the Cytophaga-Flavobacteria group, is not well understood. Motility does not involve flagella...

cells may also exhibit rapid transitions between amoeboid motility and mesenchymal motility, another form of cellular movement. Dictyostelium cells and...

twitching motility that relies on a structure called the type IV pilus, and gliding motility, that uses other mechanisms. In twitching motility, the rod-like...

micrometers in length and can travel as fast as 11 μm/s. They move via gliding motility, requiring a wettable surface or a viscous substrate, such as agar...

lack of flagella. The feature of gliding motility alone has piqued the interest of many, since the role of gliding bacteria in soil ecology is poorly...

exhibits two main types of motility, known as A-motility and S-motility. A-motility (adventurous), otherwise known as "gliding," is a method of locomotion...

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...

this type of motility. Myxococcus xanthus ability to use gliding motility to move is very similar to Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility.[1] Pseudomonas...

are involved in this parasite's motility. Gaji et al. 2015 find TgCDPK3 is required to begin the action of motility because it phosphorylates T. gondii's...

rapidly digests crystalline cellulose C. hutchinsonii is able to use its gliding motility to move quickly over surfaces. Although the mechanism for this is not...

PMID 20736348. Kappe, Stefan H.I.; et al. (January 2004). "Apicomplexan gliding motility and host cell invasion: overhauling the motor model". Trends in Parasitology...

is typically jerky, so it is called twitching motility, as opposed to other forms of bacterial motility such as that produced by flagella. However, some...

gliders or sailplanes. Gliding may also refer to: Gliding flight, flight in the absence of thrust Gliding motility of microbes. Gliding (vehicle), a natural...

dependence on CO2 and "cytophaga" for its flexibility and mobility shift (gliding motility). It belongs to the family Flavobacteriaceae, order Flavobacteriales...

both S- and A- (or gliding) motility, which provide transportation across a dynamic range of different surfaces. M. xanthus's A-motility is most effective...

an outer membrane. The system is involved variably in one type of gliding motility, in the proper targeting of certain virulence factors to the cell surface...

spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility. Many protists with flagella are known as flagellates. A microorganism...

contains the proteins MG219, MG200, MG386, and MG491 which aid in the gliding motility of the bacteria. Although Mgen lacks secreted virulence factors, the...