Sentences with phrase «using flagella»

Many bacteria swim using flagella — long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of nanometres wide.

The principle is known from nature: Bacteria, for example, propel themselves forward using a flagellum.

Not exact matches

Bacteria use molecular motors just tens of nanometres wide to spin a tail (or «flagellum») that pushes them through their habitat.

However, in the current study, when the investigators used mutant bacteria that could not make functional pili and flagella, the bacteria could still infect the mice.

Bacteria use tails — flagella — which are a lot different from propellers.

Nearly half of the samples contained cells with flagella, tail - like projections that sperm use to swim.

The researchers were testing whether an injection of flagellin, a protein that's part of the tails (or flagella) some bacteria use to propel themselves, activates the body's antibacterial defenses.

This rules out reciprocal motion — such as the way a fish uses their fins — so the microswimmers must rely on nonreciprocal motion similar to that of bacterial flagella, in which rotational motion is converted to translational motion.

Algae in this genus have a cell wall, a chloroplast, an «eye» that perceives light, and two anterior flagella with which they can swim using a breast - stroke type motion.

They successfully destroyed the microorganisms» flagella, a whip - like coil which microorganisms use to move through liquid, and the mobility of the strains was slashed accordingly.

It is a flagellated protozoan, a single - celled organism that is able to propel itself by the use of whip - like appendages called flagella.