TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a model for Flavobacterium gliding
AU - Shrivastava, Abhishek
AU - Berg, Howard C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by National Institutes of Health Grant AI016478 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Cells of Flavobacterium johnsoniae, a rod-shaped bacterium about 6. μm long, do not have flagella or pili, yet they move over surfaces at speeds of about 2. μm/s. This motion is called gliding. Recent advances in F. johnsoniae research include the discovery of mobile cell-surface adhesins and rotary motors. The puzzle is how rotary motion leads to linear motion. We suggest a possible mechanism, inspired by the snowmobile.
AB - Cells of Flavobacterium johnsoniae, a rod-shaped bacterium about 6. μm long, do not have flagella or pili, yet they move over surfaces at speeds of about 2. μm/s. This motion is called gliding. Recent advances in F. johnsoniae research include the discovery of mobile cell-surface adhesins and rotary motors. The puzzle is how rotary motion leads to linear motion. We suggest a possible mechanism, inspired by the snowmobile.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mib.2015.07.018
DO - 10.1016/j.mib.2015.07.018
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26476806
AN - SCOPUS:84944459021
SN - 1369-5274
VL - 28
SP - 93
EP - 97
JO - Current Opinion in Microbiology
JF - Current Opinion in Microbiology
ER -