Motility and chemotaxis

Motility and chemotaxis facilitate swimming and swarming of B. subtilis PubMed. Motility, chemotaxis and aerotaxis facilitate pellicle biofilm formation in B. subtilis PubMed. Production of flagella is a costly process in B. subtilis PubMed.

Parent categories	4. Lifestyles 4.1. Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles
Neighbouring categories	4.1.1. Motility and chemotaxis 4.1.2. Swarming 4.1.3. Sliding 4.1.4. Biofilm formation 4.1.5. Genetic competence
Related categories	SigD regulon SlrR regulon fla-che operon
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Labs working on motility and chemotaxis

• Gert Bange
• Daniel Kearns
• Akos T Kovacs

Regulation of flagellation

• number of flagellar hooks per micrometer of cell length
  • in swimming cells: 4 +/- 1 PubMed
  • in swarming cells: 9 +/- 2 PubMed

Genes in this functional category

Signal transduction in motility and chemotaxis

Soluble signalling proteins

• cheA
• cheB
• cheC
• cheD
• cheR
• cheY

Coupling proteins

• cheV
• cheW

Soluble chemoreceptors

• hemAT
• yfmS

Membrane-bound chemoreceptors

• mcpA
• mcpB
• mcpC
• tlpA
• tlpB
• tlpC
• yoaH
• yvaQ

Additional chemotaxis signal transduction and regulatory proteins

• csrA
• dgrA
• epr
• epsE
• flgM
• fliY
• lonA
• luxS
• pdeH
• sigD
• smiA
• swrAA/1
• swrAA/2
• swrB

Flagellar proteins

• flgB
• flgC
• flgD
• flgE
• flgK
• flgL
• flgN
• flhA
• flhB
• flhF
• flhG
• flhO
• flhP
• fliD
• fliE
• fliF
• fliG
• fliH
• fliI
• fliJ
• fliK
• fliL
• fliM
• fliP
• fliQ
• fliR
• fliS
• fliT
• fliW
• fliY
• fliZ
• hag
• motA
• motB
• motP
• motS

Flagellar proteins/ based on similarity

• ylqH
• yvyC
• yvyF

• yvzB

Motility and chemotaxis/ other

• lytC
• ycdA

Key reviews

Jan S Schuhmacher, Kai M Thormann, Gert Bange
How bacteria maintain location and number of flagella?
FEMS Microbiol Rev: 2015, 39(6);812-22
[PubMed:26195616] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sampriti Mukherjee, Daniel B Kearns
The structure and regulation of flagella in Bacillus subtilis.
Annu Rev Genet: 2014, 48;319-40
[PubMed:25251856] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Joyce E Patrick, Daniel B Kearns
Swarming motility and the control of master regulators of flagellar biosynthesis.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 83(1);14-23
[PubMed:22092493] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christopher V Rao, George D Glekas, George W Ordal
The three adaptation systems of Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis.
Trends Microbiol: 2008, 16(10);480-7
[PubMed:18774298] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hendrik Szurmant, George W Ordal
Diversity in chemotaxis mechanisms among the bacteria and archaea.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2004, 68(2);301-19
[PubMed:15187186] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L F Garrity, G W Ordal
Chemotaxis in Bacillus subtilis: how bacteria monitor environmental signals.
Pharmacol Ther: 1995, 68(1);87-104
[PubMed:8604438] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)