Self-electrophoresis is not the mechanism for motility in swimming cyanobacteria
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 177 (19) , 5701-5703
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.177.19.5701-5703.1995
Abstract
Swimming cyanobacteria do not have flagella. In principle, they could be propelled by streams of ions flowing from head to tail, i.e., by a self-electrophoretic mechanism. We have ruled out this possibility by showing that cells of a swimming Synechococcus species fail to drift in an external electric field.Keywords
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