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-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 ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered how to stop bacteria motility and thus how to disrupt bacterial infections. When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...