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The mechanism of two-phase motility in the spirochete Leptospira: Swimming and crawling
- Hajime Tahara1,
- Kyosuke Takabe1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileYuya Sasaki2,3,
- View ORCID ProfileKie Kasuga4,5,
- View ORCID ProfileAkihiro Kawamoto6,†,
- View ORCID ProfileNobuo Koizumi3 and
- View ORCID ProfileShuichi Nakamura1,‡
- 1Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-05 Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
- 2Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan.
- 3Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan.
- 4Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, 265-1 Higashijima, Akiha-ku, Niigata City, Niigata 956-8603, Japan.
- 5Division of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0934, Japan.
- 6Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
- ↵‡Corresponding author. Email: naka{at}bp.apph.tohoku.ac.jp
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Science Advances 30 May 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 5, eaar7975
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar7975
Vol. 4, no. 5, eaar7975
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar7975
Hajime Tahara
1Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-05 Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
Kyosuke Takabe
1Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-05 Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
Yuya Sasaki
2Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan.
3Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan.
Kie Kasuga
4Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, 265-1 Higashijima, Akiha-ku, Niigata City, Niigata 956-8603, Japan.
5Division of Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0934, Japan.
Akihiro Kawamoto
6Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Nobuo Koizumi
3Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan.
Shuichi Nakamura
1Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-05 Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
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