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Gliding motility revisited: how do the myxobacteria move without flagella?
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71 citing papers in PubMed.
- Distinct motors, shared mechanics: unifying principles of microbial gliding.Journal of bacteriology · 2026Review
- Chiral gliding: Right-handed navigation of filamentous cyanobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- South African Myxococcota: an untapped resource for microbial ecolo gy and biotechnology.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Genetic and environmental determinants of streaming and aggregation in Myxococcus xanthus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Bacterial Motility and Its Role in Skin and Wound Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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- Conditional and Synthetic Type IV Pili-Dependent Motility Phenotypes inFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Evolution of Reproductive Division of Labor - Lessons Learned From the Social AmoebaFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
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- Interplay of mesoscale physics and agent-like behaviors in the parallel evolution of aggregative multicellularity.EvoDevo · 2020Review
- Transcriptome dynamics of theeLife · 2019Article
- Mutants defective in the production of encapsulin show a tan-phase-locked phenotype in Myxococcus xanthus.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2019Article
- Genomic Characterization of Candidate Division LCP-89 Reveals an Atypical Cell Wall Structure, Microcompartment Production, and Dual Respiratory and Fermentative Capacities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- In silico characterization of a novel putative aerotaxis chemosensory system in the myxobacterium, Corallococcus coralloides.BMC genomics · 2018Article
- Diversity of Myxobacteria-We Only See the Tip of the Iceberg.Microorganisms · 2018Review
- Assessing Travel Conditions: Environmental and Host Influences On Bacterial Surface Motility.Journal of bacteriology · 2018Article
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Abstract
In bacteria, motility is important for a wide variety of biological functions such as virulence, fruiting body formation, and biofilm formation. While most bacteria move by using specialized appendages, usually external or periplasmic flagella, some bacteria use other mechanisms for their movements that are less well characterized. These mechanisms do not always exhibit obvious motility structures. Myxococcus xanthus is a motile bacterium that does not produce flagella but glides slowly over solid surfaces. How M. xanthus moves has remained a puzzle that has challenged microbiologists for over 50 years. Fortunately, recent advances in the analysis of motility mutants, bioinformatics, and protein localization have revealed likely mechanisms for the two M. xanthus motility systems. These results are summarized in this review.
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