A report published by Max Planck Gessellschaft in Germany, titled "The Pirate in the Microbe" discusses research involved the "Twitching Fimbriae". We discussed this type of cell mobility in Module 2 using
Psuedomonas aeruginosa as a model organism. The
P. aeruginosa "throws"grappling hook-like fimbriae out to attach to a substrate and then moved along the substrate as the fimbriae contracted.
This article focuses on work with
Neisseria gonorrhoeae and thoughts on how the direction of movement is chosen. I found it interesting that the path of movement may come down to which fimbriae contracts the strongest leading to a mostly random "decision" of where to go.
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae fimbriae
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