ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2007
Evidence that focal adhesion complexes power bacterial gliding motility.
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- A geometrical theory of gliding motility based on cell shape and surface flow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Molecular basis and design principles of switchable front-rear polarity and directional migration in Myxococcus xanthus.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- A bipartite, low-affinity roadblock domain-containing GAP complex regulates bacterial front-rear polarity.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Flagellar Motor Transformed: Biophysical Perspectives of theFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- A Tad-like apparatus is required for contact-dependent prey killing in predatory social bacteria.eLife · 2021Article
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Abstract
The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus has two motility systems: S motility, which is powered by type IV pilus retraction, and A motility, which is powered by unknown mechanism(s). We found that A motility involved transient adhesion complexes that remained at fixed positions relative to the substratum as cells moved forward. Complexes assembled at leading cell poles and dispersed at the rear of the cells. When cells reversed direction, the A-motility clusters relocalized to the new leading poles together with S-motility proteins. The Frz chemosensory system coordinated the two motility systems. The dynamics of protein cluster localization suggest that intracellular motors and force transmission by dynamic focal adhesions can power bacterial motility.
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