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SUBMITTER: Nakane D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3256606 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nakane Daisuke D Miyata Makoto M
Journal of bacteriology 20111014 1
Mycoplasma mobile glides on solid surfaces by the repeated binding of leg structures to sialylated oligosaccharide fixed on a solid surface. To obtain information about the propulsion caused by the leg, we made elongated and stiff cells using a detergent. Within 30 min after the cells were treated with 0.1% Tween 60, the cells were elongated from 0.8 μm to 2.2 μm in length while maintaining their gliding activity. Fluorescence and electron microscopy showed that a part of the cytoskeletal struct ...[more]