A polar flagella operon (flg) of Aeromonas hydrophila contains genes required for lateral flagella expression

M Altarriba, S Merino, R Gavı́n, R Canals… - Microbial …, 2003 - Elsevier
Aeromonas spp. are pathogens of both humans and poikilothermic animals, causing a
variety of diseases. Certain strains are able to produce two distinct types of flagella; polar …

Polar Flagellum Biogenesis in Aeromonas hydrophila

R Canals, S Ramirez, S Vilches… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mesophilic Aeromonas spp. constitutively express a single polar flagellum that helps the
bacteria move to more favorable environments and is an important virulence and …

Analysis of the Lateral Flagellar Gene System of Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3

R Canals, M Altarriba, S Vilches… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mesophilic Aeromonas strains express a polar flagellum in all culture conditions, and certain
strains produce lateral flagella on semisolid media or on surfaces. Although Aeromonas …

Lateral flagella of Aeromonas species are essential for epithelial cell adherence and biofilm formation

R Gavín, AA Rabaan, S Merino, JM Tomás… - Molecular …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Mesophilic Aeromonas strains express a single polar flagellum in all culture conditions and
produce lateral flagella on solid media. Such hyperflagellated cells demonstrate increased …

Lateral flagella are required for increased cell adherence, invasion and biofilm formation by Aeromonas spp.

R Gavín, S Merino, M Altarriba, R Canals… - FEMS microbiology …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Two types of flagella are responsible for motility in mesophilic Aeromonas strains. A polar
unsheathed flagellum is expressed constitutively that allows the bacterium to swim in liquid …

Non-structural flagella genes affecting both polar and lateral flagella-mediated motility in Aeromonas hydrophila

R Canals, S Vilches, M Wilhelms, JG Shaw… - …, 2007 - microbiologyresearch.org
An Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 miniTn5 mutant unable to produce polar and lateral flagella
was isolated, in which the transposon was inserted into a gene whose encoded protein was …

Bacterial lateral flagella: an inducible flagella system

S Merino, JG Shaw, JM Tomás - FEMS microbiology letters, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Flagella are complex surface organelles that allow bacteria to move towards favourable
environments and that contribute to the virulence of pathogenic bacteria through adhesion …

Bacteria that express lateral flagella enable dissection of the multifunctional roles of flagella in pathogenesis

SM Kirov - FEMS microbiology letters, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Flagella are much more than organelles of locomotion and have multiple roles that
contribute to pathogenesis. Bacteria, such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Aeromonas spp …

Aeromonas flagella and colonisation mechanisms

R Lowry, S Balboa, JL Parker, JG Shaw - Advances in microbial physiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Aeromonas species are inhabitants of aquatic environments and are able to cause disease
in humans and fish among other animals. In aquaculture, they are responsible for the …

Aeromonas hydrophila lateral flagellar gene transcriptional hierarchy

M Wilhelms, V Gonzalez, JM Tomás… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 lateral flagella are not assembled when bacteria grow in liquid
media; however, lateral flagellar genes are transcribed. Our results indicate that A …