Bacterial gliding motility: Multiple mechanisms for cell movement over surfaces

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 49-75

  McBride, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavobacterium; Mycoplasma; Myxococcus; Twitching; Type IV pilus

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLAGELLUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROLYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MYCOPLASMA; MYXOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MOVEMENT; MYCOPLASMA; MYXOCOCCUS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES; MYXOCOCCUS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0034769801     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.49     Document Type: Review

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