Professor Takayuki Nishizaka and Dr. Yoshiaki Kinosita from Gakushuin University, together with Dr. Yoshitomo Kikuchi from AIST, have discovered an unforeseen form of flagella-mediated motility ...

Flagella or motor-organs, therefore, appear superfluous3, 4. IN dark-ground microscopy with the sun as light-source, motile bacteria, when swimming fast, show a tail, as in the top left-hand ...

Flagella-mediated motility in the Burkholderia symbiont needs to be directly captured in order to verify our hypothesis. However, a flagellar filament has a diameter of only approximately 20 nm ...

Besides motility, flagella can participate in protein export, cellular adhesion, and biofilm formation, strongly influencing the virulence of a pathogen.

Most motile bacteria move by the use of flagella. While the flagellar motor components have been identified, it remains unclear how they are assembled and activated. Researchers have now shown ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive role in both disease and healing. For example, in urinary tract ...

When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body. The key function of the flagella is movement - what scientists call 'motility'. The ...

A new study from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on how bacterial motion influences the spread of antibiotic resistance. Led by Professor Sigal Ben-Yehuda ...

Bacterial motility can occur by a variety of mechanisms, utilizing flagella or filopodia to swim, amoeboid movement, or by gliding, twitching, or swarming.

Most bacteria have flagella; they are threadlike appendages extending from the surface of many microbes. They help move the organism around, a function called motility, in a rotating motion. Enabling ...

Flagella-mediated motility is essential for bacteria to move in search for better habitats and two forms have been known to date: (i) "run and tumbling" seen in peritrichous bacteria such as ...