{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Rosko J"],"funding":["Leverhulme Trust","Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca","Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación","Ministero dell&apos;Istruzione, dell&apos;Università e della Ricerca","Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation","Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Gobierno de España"],"pagination":["RP100768"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12286601"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13"],"pubmed_abstract":["Cyanobacteria are key contributors to biogeochemical cycles through photosynthesis and carbon fixation. In filamentous, multicellular cyanobacteria, these functions can be influenced through gliding motility, which enables filaments to localise in response to light and also form aggregates. Here, we use the aggregate-forming species <i>Fluctiforma draycotensis</i> to study gliding motility dynamics in detail. We find that filaments move in curved and straight trajectories interspersed with reorientation or reversal of direction. Most reversals take a few seconds, but some take substantially longer, resulting in a long-tailed distribution of stoppage times. Mean filament speeds range around a micron per second with a relatively uniform distribution against filament length, implying that all"],"journal":["eLife"],"pubmed_title":["Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes."],"pmcid":["PMC12286601"],"funding_grant_id":["RPG-2018-345","CEX202-001198","IHRC22/00002","Rita Levi Motalcini","10.37807/GBMF9200","PID2022-140407NB-C21"],"pubmed_authors":["Coates M","Polin M","Poon RN","Cremin K","Duxbury SJN","Soyer OS","Locatelli E","Rosko J","Randall K","Croft K","Valeriani C"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes.","description":"Cyanobacteria are key contributors to biogeochemical cycles through photosynthesis and carbon fixation. In filamentous, multicellular cyanobacteria, these functions can be influenced through gliding motility, which enables filaments to localise in response to light and also form aggregates. Here, we use the aggregate-forming species <i>Fluctiforma draycotensis</i> to study gliding motility dynamics in detail. We find that filaments move in curved and straight trajectories interspersed with reorientation or reversal of direction. Most reversals take a few seconds, but some take substantially longer, resulting in a long-tailed distribution of stoppage times. Mean filament speeds range around a micron per second with a relatively uniform distribution against filament length, implying that all","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jul","modification":"2026-03-16T08:16:13.497Z","creation":"2025-08-14T03:05:52.795Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12286601","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40693898"],"doi":["10.7554/eLife.100768"]}}