ArticleCommunications biology2021
Three-dimensional tracking of the ciliate Tetrahymena reveals the mechanism of ciliary stroke-driven helical swimming.
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- Three-dimensional beating pattern of the ciliary tip in the live ciliate Tetrahymena.Journal of cell science · 2025Article
- Single camera estimation of microswimmer depth with a convolutional network.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Spinning and corkscrewing of oceanic macroplankton revealed through in situ imaging.Science advances · 2024Article
- Swimming ability and flagellar motility of sperm packets of the volvocine green alga Pleodorina starrii.PloS one · 2024Article
- Methods and Measures for Investigating Microscale Motility.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Membrane-bound myosin IC drives the chiral rotation of the gliding actin filament around its longitudinal axis.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Dinoflagellate Amphiesmal Dynamics: Cell Wall Deposition with Ecdysis and Cellular Growth.Marine drugs · 2023Review
- Molecular architecture of the ciliary tip revealed by cryo-electron tomography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Torque generating properties of Tetrahymena ciliary three-headed outer-arm dynein.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Simple dynamics underlying the survival behaviors of ciliates.Biophysics and physicobiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Helical swimming in free-space is a common behavior among microorganisms, such as ciliates that are covered with thousands hair-like motile cilia, and is thought to be essential for cells to orient directly to an external stimulus. However, a direct quantification of their three-dimensional (3D) helical trajectories has not been reported, in part due to difficulty in tracking 3D swimming behavior of ciliates, especially Tetrahymena with a small, transparent cell body. Here, we conducted 3D tracking of fluorescent microbeads within a cell to directly visualize the helical swimming exhibited by Tetrahymena. Our technique showed that Tetrahymena swims along a right-handed helical path with right-handed rolling of its cell body. Using the Tetrahymena cell permeabilized with detergent treatment, we also observed that influx of Ca
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