...Charles W. Wolgemuth; George Oster Gliding motility is defined as translocation in the direction of the long axis of the bacterium while in contact with a surface. This definition leaves unspecified any mechanism and, indeed, it appears that there is more than one physiological system underlying...

...Mark J. McBride Flavobacterium johnsoniae , like many other members of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group, displays rapid gliding motility. Cells of F. johnsoniae glide over surfaces at rates of up to 10 µm/s. Latex spheres added to F. johnsoniae bind to and are rapidly propelled along...