gliding

Edge evidence

• solid surface enables context for gliding

  Gliding is a mode of active bacterial movement over surfaces.

  • DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.49 move actively over surfaces Supports surface movement as defining context for gliding.
• gliding motility machinery enables gliding RO:0002327

  Specialized machinery drives bacterial surface movement without flagella.

  • DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.035 without using flagella, pili, or other external appendages Supports gliding as a distinct motility mode.
• surface adhesins transmit force for gliding

  Surface adhesins couple internal motors to external substrates.

  • DOI:10.1038/s41579-021-00626-4 moves adhesins along the cell surface Review summarizes gliding models using moving surface adhesins.
• type IX secretion system contributes to gliding motility machinery RO:0002326

  Type IX secretion-associated components contribute to some gliding systems.

  • DOI:10.1038/s41579-021-00626-4 type 9 secretion and gliding motility Supports linkage between type IX secretion and gliding machinery.
• proton motive force enables gliding motility machinery RO:0002327

  Proton motive force can power gliding motility motors.

  • DOI:10.1038/s41579-021-00626-4 proton-driven motor that powers type 9 secretion and gliding motility Supports proton-driven gliding machinery in reviewed systems.
• helical conveyor track guides surface adhesins

  Adhesins are translocated along an envelope-associated filamentous track during gliding.

  • DOI:10.1038/s42003-023-04472-3 Filamentous multirail structures in the cell envelope are associated with the gliding machinery and SprB adhesin translocation.
• surface adhesins enables substratum coupling and traction RO:0002327

  Surface adhesins engage the substratum to generate traction.

  • DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abq0619 Surface adhesin at bacterial focal adhesions immobilizes motility complexes against the substratum to generate traction.
• substratum coupling and traction causes cell propulsion biolink:causes

  Traction at substratum-coupled adhesins drives forward movement of the cell body.

  • DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001443 Proton-dependent motors power adhesin surface translocation that propels the cell during gliding.
• cell propulsion realizes gliding

  Propulsion of the cell body along a surface constitutes the gliding phenotype.

  • DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001443 Adhesin surface translocation produces the smooth surface movement characteristic of gliding.
• gliding machinery gene complement predicts gliding

  Presence of the core gliding/secretion machinery gene set predicts gliding capacity from genomes.

  • DOI:10.1021/acsomega.3c05155 T9GPred predicts gliding motility from an 11-protein mandatory component set across Bacteroidetes genomes.