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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Gliding motility of the diatom Craspedostauros australis coincides with the intracellular movement of raphid-specific myosins.

Metin G Davutoglu, Veikko F Geyer, Lukas Niese, Johannes R Soltwedel, Marcelo L Zoccoler, Valeria Sabatino, Robert Haase, Nils Kröger, Stefan Diez, Nicole Poulsen

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Dynamic switching of cell-substrate contact sites allows gliding diatoms to modulate the curvature of their paths.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Functional morphology of gliding motility in benthic diatoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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10 authors.

Metin G DavutogluB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Veikko F GeyerB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1884-2284
Lukas NieseB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Johannes R SoltwedelCluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1273-2412
Marcelo L ZoccolerCluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6165-4679
Valeria SabatinoB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Robert HaaseCluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Nils KrögerB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8115-4129
Stefan DiezB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. stefan.diez@tu-dresden.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0750-8515
Nicole PoulsenB CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. nicole.poulsen@tu-dresden.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4533-8860

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) EXC-2068 - 390729961Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) KR 1853/9-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) PO 2256/1-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Raphid diatoms are one of the few eukaryotes capable of gliding motility, which is remarkably fast and allows for quasi-instantaneous directional reversals. Besides other mechanistic models, it has been suggested that an actomyosin system provides the force for diatom gliding. However, in vivo data on the dynamics of actin and myosin in diatoms are lacking. In this study, we demonstrate that the raphe-associated actin bundles required for diatom movement do not exhibit a directional turnover of subunits and thus their dynamics do not contribute directly to force generation. By phylogenomic analysis, we identified four raphid diatom-specific myosins in Craspedostauros australis (CaMyo51A-D) and investigated their in vivo localization and dynamics through GFP-tagging. Only CaMyo51B-D but not CaMyo51A exhibited coordinated movement during gliding, consistent with a role in force generation. The characterization of raphid diatom-specific myosins lays the foundation for unraveling the molecular mechanisms that underlie the gliding motility of diatoms.

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DiatomsMyosinsActinsMovementPhylogenyActinsMyosins

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PMID39313522
PMCPMC11420354

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