Motility and chemotaxis

Parent categories	4. Lifestyles 4.1. Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles
Neighbouring categories	4.1.1. Motility and chemotaxis 4.1.2. Swarming 4.1.3. Sliding 4.1.4. Biofilm formation 4.1.5. Genetic competence
Related categories	SigD regulon SlrR regulon
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Genes in this functional category

Signal transduction in motility and chemotaxis

Soluble signalling proteins

• cheA
• cheB
• cheC
• cheD
• cheR
• cheY

Coupling proteins

• cheV
• cheW

Soluble chemoreceptors

• hemAT
• yfmS

Membrane-bound chemoreceptors

• mcpA
• mcpB
• mcpC
• tlpA
• tlpB
• tlpC
• yoaH
• yvaQ

Additional chemotaxis signal transduction and regulatory proteins

• csrA
• dgrA
• epr
• epsE
• flgM
• fliY
• luxS
• pdeH
• sigD
• swrAA/1
• swrAA/2
• swrB

Flagellar proteins

• flgB
• flgC
• flgD
• flgE
• flgK
• flgL
• flgN
• flhA
• flhB
• flhF
• flhG
• flhO
• flhP
• fliD
• fliE
• fliF
• fliG
• fliH
• fliI
• fliJ
• fliK
• fliL
• fliM
• fliP
• fliQ
• fliR
• fliS
• fliT
• fliW
• fliY
• fliZ
• hag
• motA
• motB
• motP
• motS

Flagellar proteins/ based on similarity

• ylqH
• yvyC
• yvyF

• yvzB

Motility and chemotaxis/ other

• lytC
• smiA
• ycdA

Key original publications

Hiraku Takada, Masato Morita, Yuh Shiwa, Ryoma Sugimoto, Shota Suzuki, Fujio Kawamura, Hirofumi Yoshikawa
Cell motility and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis are affected by the ribosomal proteins, S11 and S21.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2014, 78(5);898-907
[PubMed:25035996] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Thomas M Norman, Nathan D Lord, Johan Paulsson, Richard Losick
Memory and modularity in cell-fate decision making.
Nature: 2013, 503(7477);481-486
[PubMed:24256735] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)