1988). In addition to magnetosomes and magnetic nanoparticles, magnetotactic bacteria also have a flagellum, which they use for mobility. Magnetotactic bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms ...

Bacteria have developed many strategies to ... such as those that make up the flagellum ‘motor’ complex that powers bacterial movement. After revealing this complex functions as a rotary ...

The rotor is a large rotating structure, anchored to the cell membrane, that turns the flagellum ... and toxicity of some species of pathogenic bacteria. One motivation behind this study was ...

The finding To better understand the role of the sheath, Edward Ruby of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and colleagues colonized squid with mutant bacteria that had either no flagellum or one that ...

Bacteria in your mouth may be linked to an increased risk of dementia, experts find Certain bacteria found in people's mouths may be linked to changes in brain function as you age, experts have ...

Bacteria navigate tradeoffs between phage resistance and interbacterial competition. This study reveals that while LPS ...

The rotor is a large rotating structure, anchored to the cell membrane, that turns the flagellum. On the other hand ... in infections and toxicity of some species of pathogenic bacteria. One ...

Pseudomonas bacteria infected by different mutations of a jumbo phage. The dot in the middle is the shield created by the phage to protect its DNA after it has infected the bacterial cell. Image by ...

The name refers to the characteristic funnel-shaped “collar” of interconnected microvilli and the presence of a flagellum ... plant-like phytoplankton and bacteria. In turn, protists become ...