Gliding motility: An efficient mechanism for cell penetration
Abstract
An important group of animal and human pathogens, belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa, employs a novel form of motility, known as gliding, to move on solid substrates and to enter host cells. Gliding is dependent on the parasite cytoskeleton and involves a conserved family of secretory adhesins.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70008-9
- Bibcode:
- 1998CBio....8..R12S