Myxococcus xanthus gliding motors are elastically coupled to the substrate as predicted by the focal adhesion model of gliding motility.
Myxococcus xanthus is a model organism for studying bacterial social behaviors due to its ability to form complex multi-cellular structures. Knowledge of M. xanthus surface gliding motility and the mechanisms that coordinated it are critically important to our understanding of collective cell behavi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014417?pdf=render |