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Adventurous motility is as a type of gliding motility; unlike most motility mechanisms, adventurous motility does not involve a flagellum. Gliding motility usually involves swarms of bacteria; however, adventurous motility is practiced by individual cells.[1] This gliding is hypothesized to occur via assembly of a type IV secretion system and the extrusion of a polysaccharide slime,[2] or by use of a series of adhesion complexes. The majority of research on adventurous motility has focused on the species, Myxococcus xanthus. The earliest of this research is attributed to Jonathan Hodgkin and Dale Kaiser.
- ^ McBride, Mark J. (31 January 1996). "Behavioral analysis of single cells of Myxococcus xanthus in response to prey cells of Escherichia coli". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 137 (2–3): 227–331. doi:10.1016/0378-1097(96)00062-6. PMID 8998990.
- ^ Youderian, Philip (1998-06-04). "Bacterial motility: Secretory secrets of gliding bacteria". Current Biology. 8 (12): R408–R411. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70264-7. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 9637910. S2CID 14847666.