Interference reflection microscopy shows novel insights to bacterial gliding motility

Liam M. Rooney; Paul A. Hoskisson; Gail McConnell

Interference reflection microscopy shows novel insights to bacterial gliding motility

Liam M. Rooney, Paul A. Hoskisson, Gail McConnell

University of Strathclyde

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Abstract

The gliding motility of the Δ-proteobacterium, Myxococcus xanthus is used to facilitate either social or adventurous motility depending on the availability of nutrients in their environment. The size of bacteria limits our ability to use sectioning microscopy techniques, and so most studies on gliding motility use fluorescence-based techniques to focus on lateral (x, y) dynamics. We aim to use interference reflection microscopy (IRM) to visualise the axial motility dynamics in gliding cells to better understand their underlying gliding motility mechanisms.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 14 Mar 2018
Event	Spatiotemporal Organization of Bacterial Cells - Marburg, Germany Duration: 14 Mar 2018 → 16 Mar 2018

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Conference	Spatiotemporal Organization of Bacterial Cells
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Marburg
Period	14/03/18 → 16/03/18

Keywords

microbiology
biomedical imaging
interference reflection microscopy
myxococcus xanthus

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