Motility and chemotaxis

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Motility and chemotaxis facilitate swimming and swarming of B. subtilis PubMed. Motility, chemotaxis and aerotaxis facilitate pellicle biofilm formation in B. subtilis PubMed. Production of flagella is a costly process in B. subtilis PubMed.

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Labs working on motility and chemotaxis

Regulation of flagellation

  • number of flagellar hooks per micrometer of cell length
    • in swimming cells: 4 +/- 1 PubMed
    • in swarming cells: 9 +/- 2 PubMed

Genes in this functional category

Signal transduction in motility and chemotaxis

Soluble signalling proteins

Coupling proteins

Soluble chemoreceptors

Membrane-bound chemoreceptors

Additional chemotaxis signal transduction and regulatory proteins

Flagellar proteins

Flagellar proteins/ based on similarity

Motility and chemotaxis/ other

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Key reviews

Sampriti Mukherjee, Daniel B Kearns
The structure and regulation of flagella in Bacillus subtilis.
Annu Rev Genet: 2014, 48;319-40
[PubMed:25251856] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Joyce E Patrick, Daniel B Kearns
Swarming motility and the control of master regulators of flagellar biosynthesis.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 83(1);14-23
[PubMed:22092493] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christopher V Rao, George D Glekas, George W Ordal
The three adaptation systems of Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis.
Trends Microbiol: 2008, 16(10);480-7
[PubMed:18774298] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hendrik Szurmant, George W Ordal
Diversity in chemotaxis mechanisms among the bacteria and archaea.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2004, 68(2);301-19
[PubMed:15187186] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L F Garrity, G W Ordal
Chemotaxis in Bacillus subtilis: how bacteria monitor environmental signals.
Pharmacol Ther: 1995, 68(1);87-104
[PubMed:8604438] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


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