ArticleJournal of bacteriology2008
SprB is a cell surface component of the Flavobacterium johnsoniae gliding motility machinery.
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- Filamentous structures in the cell envelope are associated with bacteroidetes gliding machinery.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Live Cell Imaging of Gliding Motility of Flavobacterium johnsoniae Under High-Resolution Microscopy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Reversible mutations in gliding motility and virulence genes: A flexible and efficient phage defence mechanism in Flavobacterium psychrophilum.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- The type IX secretion system: Insights into its function and connection to glycosylation inEngineering microbiology · 2022Review
- Dynamic proton-dependent motors power type IX secretion and gliding motility in Flavobacterium.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Design Principles of the Rotary Type 9 Secretion System.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Biofilm Spreading by the Adhesin-Dependent Gliding Motility ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cells of the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae move rapidly over surfaces by an unknown mechanism. Transposon insertions in sprB resulted in cells that were defective in gliding. SprB is a highly repetitive 669-kDa cell surface protein, and antibodies against SprB inhibited the motility of wild-type cells. Polystyrene microspheres coated with antibodies against SprB attached to and were rapidly propelled along the cell surface, suggesting that SprB is one of the outermost components of the motility machinery. The movement of SprB along the cell surface supports a model of gliding motility in which motors anchored to the cell wall rapidly propel cell surface adhesins.
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