ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2017
Light-controlled motility in prokaryotes and the problem of directional light perception.
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- Beyond movement: the dynamic roles of Type IV pili in cyanobacterial life.Journal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Light induced transthylakoidal proton gradient is a key signal driving the downward migration of motile diatoms in sediments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Physical communication pathways in bacteria: an extra layer to quorum sensing.Biophysical reviews · 2025Review
- Cyanobacteria and Chloroflexota cooperate to structure light-responsive biofilms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Photosynthetic Bacteria: Light-Responsive Biomaterials for Anti-Tumor Photodynamic Therapy.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Review
- Collective self-caging of active filaments in virtual confinement.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Green/red light-sensing mechanism in the chromatic acclimation photosensor.Science advances · 2024Article
- Light Control in Microbial Systems.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- A cyanobacterial chemotaxis-like system controls phototactic orientation via phosphorylation of two antagonistic response regulators.microLife · 2024Article
- Photobehaviours guided by simple photoreceptor systems.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Recent advances and perspectives in nucleotide second messenger signaling in bacteria.microLife · 2023Review
- Control of light-dependent behaviour in cyanobacteria by the second messenger cyclic di-GMP.microLife · 2023Review
- Live Cell Imaging of the Twitching Motility of Cyanobacteria by High-Resolution Microscopy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Novel form of collective movement by soil bacteria.The ISME journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
The natural light environment is important to many prokaryotes. Most obviously, phototrophic prokaryotes need to acclimate their photosynthetic apparatus to the prevailing light conditions, and such acclimation is frequently complemented by motility to enable cells to relocate in search of more favorable illumination conditions. Non-phototrophic prokaryotes may also seek to avoid light at damaging intensities and wavelengths, and many prokaryotes with diverse lifestyles could potentially exploit light signals as a rich source of information about their surroundings and a cue for acclimation and behavior. Here we discuss our current understanding of the ways in which bacteria can perceive the intensity, wavelength and direction of illumination, and the signal transduction networks that link light perception to the control of motile behavior. We discuss the problems of light perception at the prokaryotic scale, and the challenge of directional light perception in small bacterial cells. We explain the peculiarities and the common features of light-controlled motility systems in prokaryotes as diverse as cyanobacteria, purple photosynthetic bacteria, chemoheterotrophic bacteria and haloarchaea.
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