Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible for movement. Flagella are important for bacteria because ...

Most bacteria have flagella; they are threadlike appendages extending from the surface of many microbes. They help move the organism around, a function called motility, in a rotating motion. Enabling ...

When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body. The key function of the flagella is movement -- what scientists call 'motility'.

The study shows that in liquid environments, where bacteria rely on movement to navigate, the rotation of flagella acts as a mechanical signal that turns on a set of genes required for DNA transfer.

How bacteria regulate, assemble and rotate flagella to swim in liquid media ... by fluorescence microscopy coupled with membrane staining (Fig. 6). Before declaring that a cell is filamentous ...

On the other hand, gram-negative bacteria stain pink instead ... usually doesn’t have teichoic acids can have flagella or pili The major difference is the outer lipid membrane.

Flagella are composed of over 20 unique proteins and represent a complex set of molecular machinery, working in unison to provide motility to many Gram-negative and positive species of bacteria ...

Among the most important PAMPs is flagellin, the main protein in bacterial flagella—the whip-like structures bacteria use to propel themselves. "Early detection of the enemy is a central tenet ...

An underwater robot can delicately propel itself in any direction with its 12 flexible arms, inspired by the flagella of bacteria. Its creators claim it can carry out underwater inspections ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible ... A trio of fluid dynamics and mathematical modelers at ...