Bacteria use type IV pili to walk upright and detach from surfaces

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6001, 2010, Pages

  Gibiansky, Maxsim L ^a   Conrad, Jacinta C ^b   Jin, Fan ^a   Gordon, Vernita D ^a   Motto, Dominick A ^d   Mathewson, Margie A ^c   Stopka, Wiktor G ^c   Zelasko, Daria C ^c   Shrout, Joshua D ^d   Wong, Gerard C L ^a,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; DATABASE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANKTON;

BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; DATA BASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; WALKING; ALGORITHM; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL DIVISION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; MICROSCOPY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL DIVISION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77957735228     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1194238     Document Type: Short Survey

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