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Focal adhesion: getting a grasp on myxobacterial gliding

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The gliding motility of individual bacterial cells has been a deep mystery so far. Recent results provide the first molecular-level insights into the mechanism of this process.

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Figure 1: Illustration of different bacterial motilities.

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  1. Wenyuan Shi and Renate Lux are in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine and the Section of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. wenyuan@ucla.edu,

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