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 ...

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 ...

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

Flagella-mediated gliding-like motility . Why does the Burkholderia symbiont display a unique motility form even when its efficiency is low? When we placed E. coli, a non-symbiont, in the same ...

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 ...

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

Thus swimming motility is one of the costliest bacterial behaviors. Instead of paying in cash, microorganisms trade in costly proteins. The processes involved in chemotaxis and motility consume ...

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 ...

The beating of flagella is one of the basic principles of movement in the cellular cosmos. However, up to now, scientists were unsure as to how the movements of several of these small cellular ...

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 ...

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 ...