Motility in the epsilon-proteobacteria.
Curr Opin Microbiol
; 28: 115-21, 2015 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26590774
ABSTRACT
The epsilon-proteobacteria are a widespread group of flagellated bacteria frequently associated with either animal digestive tracts or hydrothermal vents, with well-studied examples in the human pathogens of Helicobacter and Campylobacter genera. Flagellated motility is important to both pathogens and hydrothermal vent members, and a number of curious differences between the epsilon-proteobacterial and enteric bacterial motility paradigms make them worthy of further study. The epsilon-proteobacteria have evolved to swim at high speed and through viscous media that immobilize enterics, a phenotype that may be accounted for by the molecular architecture of the unusually large epsilon-proteobacterial flagellar motor. This review summarizes what is known about epsilon-proteobacterial motility and focuses on a number of recent discoveries that rationalize the differences with enteric flagellar motility.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Epsilonproteobacteria
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Flagella
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Curr Opin Microbiol
Journal subject:
MICROBIOLOGIA
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article