Bacterial Gliding Motility

Korean Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 199-205

  Cho, Kyungyun ^a  

^a Hoseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Flavobacterium; Gliding motility; Myxobacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM PILUS; BEHAVIOR; CELL MOTION; CELL SURFACE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLIDING MOTILITY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; THIN FILAMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0242643513     PISSN: 1598642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Behmlander, R. M. and M. Dworkin. 1991. Extracellular fibrils and contact-mediated cell interactions in Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 173: 7810-7821.
2. Bhaya, D., N. Watanabe, T. Ogawa, and A. R. Grossman 1999. The role of an alternative sigma factor in motility and pilus formation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96: 3188-3193.
3. Blair, D. F. 1995. How bacteria sense and swim. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 49: 489-522.
4. Bowden, M. G. and H. B. Kaplan. 1998. The Myxococcus xanthus lipopolysaccharide O-antigen is required for social motility and multicellular development. Mol. Microbiol. 30: 275-284.
5. Bradley, D. E. 1972. Shortening of Pseudomonas pili after RNA-phage adsorption. J. Gen. Microbiol. 72: 303-319.
6. Dworkin, M. and D. Kaiser. 1993. Myxobacteria II. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
7. Freese, A., H. Reichenbach, and H. Lünsdorf. 1997. Further characterization and in situ localization of chain-like aggregates of the gliding bacteria Myxococcus fulvus and Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 179: 1246-1252.
8. Henrichsen, J. 1983. Twitching motility. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 37: 81-93.
9. Hodgkin, J. and D. Kaiser. 1979. Genetics of gliding motility in Myxococcus xanthus (myxobacterales): two gene systems control movement. Mol. Gen. Genet. 171: 177-191.
10. Hoiczyk, E. 2000. Gliding motility in cyanobacteria: observations and possible explanations. Arch. Micro. 174: 11-17.
11. Hoiczyk, E. and W. Baumeister. 1995. Envelope structure of four gliding filamentous cyanobacteria. J. Bactetiol. 177: 2387-2395.
12. 2+-binding glycoprotein essential for the gliding motility of cyanobacteria. Mol. Microbiol. 26: 699-708.
13. Hoiczyk, E. and W. Baumeister. 1998. The junctional pore complex, a prokaryotic secretion organelle, is the molecular motor underlying gliding motility in cyanobacteria. Curr. Biol. 8: 1161-1168.
14. Kaiser, D. 1979. Social gliding is correlated with the presence of pili in Myxococcus xanthus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 76: 5952-5956.
15. Kaiser, D. 2000. Bacterial motility: How do pili pull?. Curr. Biol. 10: R777-R780.
16. Keller, K. H., M. Grady, and M. Dworkin. 1983. Surface tension gradients: feasible model for gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 155: 1358-1366.
17. Lapidus, I. R. and H. C. Berg. 1982. Gliding motility of Cytophaga sp. strain U67. J. Bacteriol. 151: 383-398.
18. Lünsdorf, H. and H. U. Schairer. 2001. Frozen motion of gliding bacteria outlines inherent features of the motility apparatus. Microbiology 147: 939-947.
19. MacNeil, S. D., A. Mouzeyan, and P. L. Hartzell. 1994. Genes required for both gliding motility and development in Myxococcus xanthus. Mol. Microbiol. 14: 785-795.
20. McBride, M. 2000. Bacterial gliding motility: mechanisms and mysteries. Am. Soc. Microbiol. News 66: 203-210.
21. McBride, M. 2001. Bacterial gliding motility: multiple mechanisms for cell movement over surfaces. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 55: 49-75.
22. McBride, M. J. and M. J. Kempf. 1996. Development of techniques for the genetic manipulation of the gliding bacterium Cytophaga johnsonae. J. Bacteriol. 178: 583-590.
23. Merz, A., M. Sheetz, and M. So. 2000. Pilus retraction powers bacterial twitching motility. Nature 407: 98-102.
24. Pate, J. and L. Chang. 1979. Evidence that gliding motility in prokaryotic cells is driven by rotary assemblies in the cell envelopes. Curr. Microbiol. 2: 59-64.
25. Reichenbach, H. 1999. The ecology of the myxobacteria. Environ. Microbiol. 1: 15-21.
26. Rodriguez, A. M. and A. M. Spormann. 1999. Genetic and molecular analysis of cglB, a gene essential for single-cell gliding in Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 181: 4381-4390.
27. Shi, W. and D. R. Zusman. 1993. The two motility systems of Myxococcus xanthus show different selective advantages on various surfaces. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90: 3378-3382.
28. Shi, W., T. Kohler, and D. R. Zusman. 1993. Chemotaxis plays a role in the social behaviour of Myxococcus xanthus. Mol. Microbiol. 9: 601-611.
29. Skerker, J. M. and H. C. Berg. 2001. Direct observation of extension and retraction of type IV pili. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98: 6901-6904.
30. Spormann, A. 1999. Gliding motility in bacteria: insights from studies of Myxococcus xanthus. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 63: 621-641.
31. Stephens, K., P. Hartzell, and D. Kaiser. 1989. Gliding motility in Myxococcus xanthus: mgl locus, RNA, and predicted protein products. J. Bacteriol. 171: 819-830.
32. Sun, H., Z. Yang, and W. Shi. 1999. Effect of cellular filamentation on adventurous and social gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96: 15178-15183.
33. Wall, D. and D. Kaiser. 1999. Type IV pili and cell motility. Mol. Microbiol. 32: 1-10.
34. Ward, M. J. and D. R. Zusman. 1999. Motility in Myxococcus xanthus and its role in developmental aggregation. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 2: 624-629.
35. White, D. J. and P. L. Hartzell. 2000. AglU, a protein required for gliding motility and spore maturation of Myxococcus xanthus, is related to WD-repeat proteins. Mol. Microbiol. 36: 662-678.
36. Wolgemuth, C., E. Hoiczyk, D. Kaiser, and G. Oster. 2002. How myxobacteria glide. Curr. Biol. 12: 369-377.
37. Yang, Z., Y. Geng, D. Xu, H. B. Kaplan, and W. Shi. 1998. A new set of chemotaxis homologues is essential for Myxococcus xanthus social motility. Mol. Microbiol. 30: 1123-1130.
38. Zusman, D. R. 1982. "Frizzy" mutants: a new class of aggregation-defective developmental mutants of Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 150: 1430-1437.
39. Zusman, D. R. and M. J. McBride. 1991. Sensory transduction in the gliding bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Mol. Microbiol. 5: 2323-2329.