Myxococcus xanthus Gliding Motors Are Elastically Coupled to the Substrate as Predicted by the Focal Adhesion Model of Gliding Motility

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Balagam, Rajesh ^a   Litwin, Douglas B ^b   Czerwinski, Fabian ^c   Sun, Mingzhai ^c   Kaplan, Heidi B ^b   Shaevitz, Joshua W ^c   Igoshin, Oleg A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CYTOLOGY; GEOMETRY; SUBSTRATES;

CELL BEHAVIOURS; CELL MOTILITY; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; ELASTIC COUPLING; FOCAL ADHESIONS; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOTOR VELOCITY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LENGTH; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORIENTATION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC COUPLING; ELASTIC COUPLING MODEL; FOCAL ADHESION MODEL; HELICAL ROTOR MODEL; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE GLIDING MOTILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISCOUS COUPLING MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FOCAL ADHESION; FRICTION; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FOCAL ADHESIONS; FRICTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84901649745     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003619     Document Type: Article

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