Bacteria use type-IV pili to slingshot on surfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12617-12622

  Jin, Fan ^a,d   Conrad, Jacinta C ^b   Gibiansky, Maxsim L ^a   Wong, Gerard C L ^a,c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Biometric identification; Cystic fibrosis; Extracellular polysaccharides; PAO1

Indexed keywords

VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL SURFACE; MACROMOLECULE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TWITCHING MOTILITY; TYPE IV PILI; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 79961230048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105073108     Document Type: Article

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