Myxococcus xanthus Gliding Motors Are Elastically Coupled to the Substrate as Predicted by the Focal Adhesion Model of Gliding Motility

• Rajesh Balagam,

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Douglas B. Litwin,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas – Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Fabian Czerwinski,

  Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Mingzhai Sun,

  Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Heidi B. Kaplan,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas – Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Joshua W. Shaevitz ,

  * E-mail: Shaevitz@princeton.edu (JWS); igoshin@rice.edu (OAI)

  Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Oleg A. Igoshin

  * E-mail: Shaevitz@princeton.edu (JWS); igoshin@rice.edu (OAI)

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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