Bacteria have developed a large array of motility mechanisms to exploit available resources
and environments. These mechanisms can be broadly classified into swimming in aqueous …

Prokaryotic cells move through liquids or over moist surfaces by swimming, swarming,
gliding, twitching or floating. An impressive diversity of motility mechanisms has evolved in …

For many bacteria, motility is essential for survival, growth, virulence, biofilm formation and
intra/interspecies interactions. Since natural environments differ, bacteria have evolved …

Motility of bacterial cells promotes a range of important physiological phenomena such as
nutrient detection, harm avoidance, biofilm formation, and pathogenesis. While much …

▪ Abstract The mechanisms responsible for bacterial gliding motility have been a mystery for
almost 200 years. Gliding bacteria move actively over surfaces by a process that does not …

Many bacteria glide smoothly on surfaces, despite having no discernable propulsive
organelles on their surface. Recent experiments with Myxococcus xanthus and …

Bacteria optimize the use of their motility appendages to move efficiently on a wide range of
surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. The “twitching” motility mode …

Twitching motility is a unique form of bacterial propulsion on solid surfaces associated with
cycles of extension, tethering and retraction of type IV pili (T4P). Although investigations over …

Prokaryotes have the ability to walk on surfaces using type IV pili (TFP), a motility
mechanism known as twitching,. Molecular motors drive TFP extension and retraction, but …

Many bacterial species use gliding motility in natural habitats because external flagella
function poorly on hard surfaces. However, the mechanism (s) of gliding remain elusive …