An evolutionary link between capsular biogenesis and surface motility in bacteria

Bacteria that Glide with Helical Tracks

(2014) Beiyan Nan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Synthesis and Assembly of a Novel Glycan Layer inMyxococcus xanthusSpores

(2014) Carina Holkenbrink et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

(2014) Rajesh Balagam et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Ancestral resurrection reveals evolutionary mechanisms of kinase plasticity

(2014) Conor J Howard et al.   eLife

Bacterial Actins and Their Diversity

(2013) Ertan Ozyamak et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Flagella stator homologs function as motors for myxobacterial gliding motility by moving in helical trajectories

(2013) B. Nan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Helical flow of surface protein required for bacterial gliding motility

(2013) D. Nakane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Supercomplex Assembly Determines Electron Flux in the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain

(2013) E. Lapuente-Brun et al.   SCIENCE

A Versatile Class of Cell Surface Directional Motors Gives Rise to Gliding Motility and Sporulation in Myxococcus xanthus

(2013) Morgane Wartel et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Adaptive Mutations that Prevent Crosstalk Enable the Expansion of Paralogous Signaling Protein Families

(2012) Emily J. Capra et al.   CELL

Flavobacterium johnsoniae RemA Is a Mobile Cell Surface Lectin Involved in Gliding

(2012) A. Shrivastava et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Wet-surface-enhanced ellipsometric contrast microscopy identifies slime as a major adhesion factor during bacterial surface motility

(2012) A. Ducret et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Non-Flagellar Type III Secretion System Evolved from the Bacterial Flagellum and Diversified into Host-Cell Adapted Systems

(2012) Sophie S. Abby et al.   PLoS Genetics

Uncovering the Mystery of Gliding Motility in the Myxobacteria

(2011) Beiyan Nan et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Spore formation in Myxococcus xanthus is tied to cytoskeleton functions and polysaccharide spore coat deposition

(2011) Frank D. Müller et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Myxobacteria gliding motility requires cytoskeleton rotation powered by proton motive force

(2011) B. Nan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Motor-driven intracellular transport powers bacterial gliding motility

(2011) M. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Emergence and Modular Evolution of a Novel Motility Machinery in Bacteria

(2011) Jennifer Luciano et al.   PLoS Genetics

Disulphide cross-linking between the stator and the bearing components in the bacterial flagellar motor

(2010) Y. Hizukuri et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY

A multi-protein complex from Myxococcus xanthus required for bacterial gliding motility

(2010) Beiyan Nan et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial motility complexes require the actin-like protein, MreB and the Ras homologue, MglA

(2009) Emilia M F Mauriello et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The structural biology of type IV secretion systems

(2009) Rémi Fronzes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Rewiring the Specificity of Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems

(2008) Jeffrey M. Skerker et al.   CELL

The Peptidoglycan Sacculus of Myxococcus xanthus Has Unusual Structural Features and Is Degraded during Glycerol-Induced Myxospore Development

(2008) N. K. Bui et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mapping the Interactions betweenEscherichia coliTol Subunits

(2008) Xiang Y.-Z. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Type IV pili: e pluribus unum?

(2008) Vladimir Pelicic   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Energy source of flagellar type III secretion

(2008) Koushik Paul et al.   NATURE

The surprisingly diverse ways that prokaryotes move

(2008) Ken F. Jarrell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Coordinating assembly of a bacterial macromolecular machine

(2008) Fabienne F. V. Chevance et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Mosaic Genome of Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans Strain 2CP-C Suggests an Aerobic Common Ancestor to the Delta-Proteobacteria

(2008) Sara H. Thomas et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial flagellar diversity and evolution: seek simplicity and distrust it?

(2008) Lori A.S. Snyder et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The TolQ-TolR proteins energize TolA and share homologies with the flagellar motor proteins 
MotA-MotB

(2003) Eric Cascales et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY