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SUBMITTER: Brahamsha B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC39053 | biostudies-other | 1996 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19960601 13
Certain marine unicellular cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus exhibit a unique and mysterious form of motility characterized by the ability to swim in liquid in the absence of flagella. An abundant cell-surface-associated polypeptide that is required for swimming motility by Synechococcus sp. strain WH8102 has been identified, and the gene encoding it, swmA, has been cloned and sequenced. The predicted SwmA protein contains a number of Ca2+-binding motifs as well as several potential N-gly ...[more]