How spirochetes may swim

✍ Scribed by Howard C. Berg

• Book ID: 104155318
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 250 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5193(76)80074-4

✦ Synopsis

Many of the movements of spirochetes can be understood if the protoplasmic cylinder is semi-rigid, the external sheath is flexible, and the axial filaments rotate. A spirochete could be a Gram-negative bacterium with a detached outer membrane that swims by rotating its flagella in the periplasmic space.