ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1999
Effect of cellular filamentation on adventurous and social gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus.
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- Defining motility in the Staphylococci.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2017Review
- Colony Expansion of Socially Motile Myxococcus xanthus Cells Is Driven by Growth, Motility, and Exopolysaccharide Production.PLoS computational biology · 2016Article
- Contact- and Protein Transfer-Dependent Stimulation of Assembly of the Gliding Motility Machinery in Myxococcus xanthus.PLoS genetics · 2015Article
- Cell division resets polarity and motility for the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Article
- Myxococcus xanthus gliding motors are elastically coupled to the substrate as predicted by the focal adhesion model of gliding motility.PLoS computational biology · 2014Article
- Chemosensory signaling controls motility and subcellular polarity in Myxococcus xanthus.Current opinion in microbiology · 2012Review
- Myxobacteria gliding motility requires cytoskeleton rotation powered by proton motive force.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011Article
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- Uncovering the mystery of gliding motility in the myxobacteria.Annual review of genetics · 2011Review
- Gliding motility revisited: how do the myxobacteria move without flagella?Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2010Review
- Bacterial motility complexes require the actin-like protein, MreB and the Ras homologue, MglA.The EMBO journal · 2010Article
- Are there lateral as well as polar engines for A-motile gliding in myxobacteria?Journal of bacteriology · 2009Article
- High-force generation is a conserved property of type IV pilus systems.Journal of bacteriology · 2009Article
- Bacterial signaling and motility: sure bets.Journal of bacteriology · 2008Article
- Polarity of motility systems in Myxococcus xanthus.Current opinion in microbiology · 2007Review
- The motors powering A-motility in Myxococcus xanthus are distributed along the cell body.Journal of bacteriology · 2007Article
- An atypical receiver domain controls the dynamic polar localization of the Myxococcus xanthus social motility protein FrzS.Molecular microbiology · 2007Article
- Evidence that focal adhesion complexes power bacterial gliding motility.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2007Article
- The motility of mollicutes.Biophysical journal · 2003Article
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Abstract
Filamentous bacterial cells often provide biological information that is not readily evident in normal-size cells. In this study, the effect of cellular filamentation on gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus, a Gram-negative social bacterium, was investigated. Elongation of the cell body had different effects on adventurous and social motility of M. xanthus. The rate of A-motility was insensitive to cell-body elongation whereas the rate of S-motility was reduced dramatically as the cell body got longer, indicating that these two motility systems work in different ways. The study also showed that filamentous wild-type cells glide smoothly with relatively straight, long cell bodies. However, filamentous cells of certain social motility mutants showed zigzag, tangled cell bodies on a solid surface, apparently a result of a lack of coordination between different fragments within the filaments. Further genetic and biochemical analyses indicated that the uncoordinated movements of these mutant filaments were correlated with the absence of cell surface fibril materials, indicating a possible new function for fibrils.
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