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Gliding Mycoplasma

Introduction

Mycoplama are small wall-less bacteria. Some species and others are nonmotile. M. mobile, shown here, glides at about 3 µm/s. It was isolated from the gill of a freshwater fish. The cell has a nose, like a shmoo, and it glides nose first.

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Reference

Kirchhoff, H., "Motility, in Mycoplasmas: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis." American Society for Microbiology, pp. 289-306 (1992).

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