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Gliding motility of a filamentous photosynthetic bacterium, Chloroflexus aggregans

Species name: Chloroflexus Aggregans

Tokyo Metropolitan University Shin Haruta

Chloroflexus aggregans is a thermophilic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium. The multicellular long filaments (approx. 400μm) show a fast gliding motility, 3μm/s.

(2013.04.05)

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