ArticlePloS one2012
On the mysterious propulsion of Synechococcus.
Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- The "Dark Side" of Picocyanobacteria: Life as We Do Not Know It (Yet).Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
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- Structural Determinants and Their Role in Cyanobacterial Morphogenesis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Vertical migration by bulk phytoplankton sustains biodiversity and nutrient input to the surface ocean.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Tree of motility - A proposed history of motility systems in the tree of life.Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms · 2020Review
- Light-controlled motility in prokaryotes and the problem of directional light perception.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2017Review
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- The putative eukaryote-like O-GlcNAc transferase of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 hydrolyzes UDP-GlcNAc and is involved in multiple cellular processes.Journal of bacteriology · 2015Article
- Bacteria that glide with helical tracks.Current biology : CB · 2014Review
- Flagella stator homologs function as motors for myxobacterial gliding motility by moving in helical trajectories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
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Abstract
We propose a model for the self-propulsion of the marine bacterium Synechococcus utilizing a continuous looped helical track analogous to that found in Myxobacteria [1]. In our model cargo-carrying protein motors, driven by proton-motive force, move along a continuous looped helical track. The movement of the cargo creates surface distortions in the form of small amplitude traveling ridges along the S-layer above the helical track. The resulting fluid motion adjacent to the helical ribbon provides the propulsive thrust. A variation on the helical rotor model of [1] allows the motors to be anchored to the peptidoglycan layer, where they drive rotation of the track creating traveling helical waves along the S-layer. We derive expressions relating the swimming speed to the amplitude, wavelength, and velocity of the surface waves induced by the helical rotor, and show that they fall in reasonable ranges to explain the velocity and rotation rate of swimming Synechococcus.
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