Two new studies uncover unexpected ways that microbes move, offering insights that could impact our understanding of human ...

Archaea use flagella known as archaella—distinct both in protein composition and structure from bacterial flagella—to drive cell motility, but the structural basis of this function is unknown. Here, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, No. 25 (June 22, 2010), pp. 11295-11300 (6 pages) Flagella are the bacterial organelles of motility and can ...

Prokaryotic cells have evolved numerous machineries to swim through liquid or crawl over surfaces. Perhaps the most common of these are the well-studied bacterial flagella and the unrelated archaeal ...

Professor Takayuki Nishizaka and Dr. Yoshiaki Kinosita from Gakushuin University, together with Dr. Yoshitomo Kikuchi (Senior Researcher) from AIST, have discovered an unforeseen form of ...

Bacteria such as Salmonella are propelled by stiff slender corkscrew-like structures called flagella, which are driven by rotary motors. These helical filaments are built from a single type of ...

Many species of swimming bacteria have a rotary structure called a "flagellum," consisting of more than twenty different kinds of proteins. By rotating their flagellar filaments and gaining propulsion ...