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On the propulsion of capsule-shaped organisms next to slippery rigid boundaries
Published in Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2023
Zeeshan Asghar, Rehman Ali Shah, Wasfi Shatanawi, Muhammad Asif Gondal
In 1984, it was observed by Burchard [1] that there are two different mechanisms by which gliding bacteria can motile on various surfaces. The first mechanism of gliding motility is the secretion of a material called a surfactant, that pushes the bacteria forward across different surfaces. The second one is via muscular movement (or protein transport). Various facsimiles were proposed to estimate gliding locomotion [2–6]. Focal adhesions are multi-protein, integrin-containing arrangements that form automated relations among intracellular basal surface and the extracellular substrate in numerous organisms [3,5,7,8]. Mitochondrial respiration produces a protonmotive force (PMF), across the cytoskeleton in gliding cells [2,9–12].