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cell gliding

Known as: cell gliding motility 
Cell motility that results in the smooth movement of a cell along a solid surface. [PMID:18461074]
National Institutes of Health

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2015
2015
A new locus in Cytophaga hutchinsonii involved in colony spreading on agar surfaces and individual cell gliding.
Cytophaga hutchinsonii glides rapidly over surfaces by an unknown mechanism without flagella and type IV pili and it can degrade… 
2009
2009
Cellular pattern dynamics on a concave interface in three-dimensional alloy solidification.
Three-dimensional interface patterns are common in condensed matter, whose dynamical behavior is still deserving clarification… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Mutant Analysis Reveals a Specific Requirement for Protein P30 in Mycoplasma pneumoniae Gliding Motility
ABSTRACT The cell-wall-less prokaryote Mycoplasma pneumoniae, long considered among the smallest and simplest cells capable of… 
2003
2003
Gliding movement in Peranema trichophorum is powered by flagellar surface motility.
A colorless euglenoid flagellate Peranema trichophorum shows unique unidirectional gliding cell locomotion on the substratum at… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Genetic and Molecular Analysis of cglB, a Gene Essential for Single-Cell Gliding in Myxococcus xanthus
ABSTRACT Gliding movements of individual isolated Myxococcus xanthus cells depend on the genes of the A-motility system (agl and… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Gliding Motility in Bacteria: Insights from Studies ofMyxococcus xanthus
SUMMARY Gliding motility is observed in a large variety of phylogenetically unrelated bacteria. Gliding provides a means for… 
1998
1998
Microsphere attachment induces glycoprotein redistribution and transmembrane signaling in theChlamydomonas flagellum
SummaryThe biflagellate green algaChlamydomonas can exhibit substrate-associated gliding motility in addition to its ability to… 
1995
1995
Flagellar surface motility: gliding and microsphere movements.
1989
1989
Use of a novel Chlamydomonas mutant to demonstrate that flagellar glycoprotein movements are necessary for the expression of gliding motility.
As an alternative to swimming through liquid medium by the coordinated bending activity of its two flagella, Chlamydomonas can… 
1982
1982
Functional modification of the Chlamydomonas flagellar surface
Chlamydomonas flagella exhibit force transduction in association with their surface. This flagellar surface motility is probably… 
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