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 …

Most swimming bacteria are capable of following gradients of nutrients, signaling molecules
and other environmental factors that affect bacterial physiology. This tactic behavior became …

Microbes thrive in diverse porous environments—from soil and riverbeds to human lungs
and cancer tissues—spanning multiple scales and conditions. Short-to long-term …

The survival and successful spread of many bacterial species hinges on their mode of
motility. One of the most distinct of these is swarming, a collective form of motility where a …

Bacterial chemotaxis is the directed movement of motile bacteria in gradients of
chemoeffectors. This behavior is mediated by dedicated signal transduction pathways that …

The recent discovery of the peritrichous, swarm-competent bacterium Enterobacter sp. SM3
has offered a new opportunity to investigate the connection between bacterial swimming …

FliL is a bacterial flagellar protein demonstrated to associate with, and regulate ion flow
through, the stator complex in a diverse array of bacterial species. FliL is also implicated in …

FliL is an essential component of the flagellar machinery in some bacteria, but a conditional
one in others. The conditional role is for optimal swarming in some bacteria. During …

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) expressing the colonization pili CFA/I are common
causes of diarrhoeal infections in humans. Here, we use a combination of transposon …

Swarming regulation is complicated in flagellated bacteria, especially those possessing dual
flagellar systems. It remains unclear whether and how the movement of the constitutive polar …