ReviewCurrent biology : CB2014
Bacteria that glide with helical tracks.
Review in Current biology : CB, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.
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47 citing papers in PubMed.
- Chiral gliding: Right-handed navigation of filamentous cyanobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Secretins of type-two secretion systems are necessary for exopolymeric slime secretion in cyanobacteria and myxobacteria.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Milestones in the development ofJournal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- RABiTPy: an open-source Python software for rapid, AI-powered bacterial tracking and analysis.BMC bioinformatics · 2025Article
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- A lytic transglycosylase connects bacterial focal adhesion complexes to the peptidoglycan cell wall.eLife · 2024Article
- A lytic transglycosylase connects bacterial focal adhesion complexes to the peptidoglycan cell wall.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- A journey with type IX secretion system effectors: selection, transport, processing and activities.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
- Filamentous structures in the cell envelope are associated with bacteroidetes gliding machinery.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Mathematical modeling of mechanosensitive reversal control inFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Transposon mutagenesis and genome sequencing identify two novel, tandem genes involved in the colony spreading ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Live Cell Imaging of Gliding Motility of Flavobacterium johnsoniae Under High-Resolution Microscopy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- The type IX secretion system: Insights into its function and connection to glycosylation inEngineering microbiology · 2022Review
- Mechanical limitation of bacterial motility mediated by growing cell chains.Biophysical journal · 2022Article
- Metabolic properties, gene functions, and biosafety analysis reveal the action of three rhizospheric plant growth-promoting bacteria of Jujuncao (Pennisetum giganteum).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- Dynamic proton-dependent motors power type IX secretion and gliding motility in Flavobacterium.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Flagellar Motor Transformed: Biophysical Perspectives of theFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Analysis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many bacteria glide smoothly on surfaces, despite having no discernable propulsive organelles on their surface. Recent experiments with Myxococcus xanthus and Flavobacterium johnsoniae show that both of these distantly related bacterial species glide using proteins that move in helical tracks, albeit with significantly different motility mechanisms. Both species utilize proton-motive force for movement. Although the motors that power gliding in M. xanthus have been identified, the F. johnsoniae motors remain to be discovered.
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