BioTechniques

A new explanation for how bacteria swim

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...
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Function and Dynamics of PKD2 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Flagella

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To analyze the function of ciliary polycystic kidney disease 2 (PKD2) and its relationship to intraflagellar transport (IFT), we cloned the ...
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The Drosophila Pericentrin-Like Protein Is Essential for Cilia/Flagella Function, but Appears to Be Dispensable for Mitosis

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Centrosomes consist of a pair of centrioles surrounded by an amorphous pericentriolar material (PCM). Proteins that contain a ...
Nature

Flagella and cilia come of age

For the first half of the twentieth century, the sensory cilium, which is a non-motile projection that most mammalian cells possess, was thought to be a functionless vestigial structure. A series of ...
Nature

CryoEM structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei archaellum reveals structural features distinct from the bacterial flagellum and type IV pilus

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, ...
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Scientists discover tug-of-war mechanism driving bacteria flagella direction switching

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...
Science Daily

The discovery of a third form of flagella-mediated motility shown by symbiotic bacteria

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 ...
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Microscopic 'clutch' puts flagellum in neutral

It has been long been known that bacteria swim by rotating their tail-like structure called the flagellum. (See the swimming bacteria in the figure.) The rotating motion of the flagellum is powered by ...
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Researchers Target the Flagellum in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The ‘molecular machine’ flagellum is essential for bacteria to cause ...
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Microscopic 'Clutch' Puts Flagellum In Neutral

A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, scientists have learned. Scientists have ...
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Microscopic 'clutch' puts flagellum in neutral

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, Indiana University ...