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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Basic Microbiol. 2013 Jan 15;53(9):785–791. doi: 10.1002/jobm.201200307

Figure 1.

Figure 1

S-motility-deficient cells of Myxococcus xanthus EH302 (ΔpilQ, ΔbacM) gliding over a TPM agar patch 24 h after spotting. Two (A) and one (B) individual crooked cells were marked at the leading pole by arrowheads that indicate the direction of gliding. White bars represent 2 μm; reversals of gliding direction are marked by “Rev”. Arcs in (B) indicate the orientation of the bend near the end of the tracked cell. Note, that the zigzag-shaped cells maintain their orientation during gliding rather than changing into their mirror image (see also corresponding Movies 1A and 1B).