Fig. 2From: A non-flagellated biocontrol bacterium employs a PilZ-PilB complex to provoke twitching motility associated with its predation behaviorPilZLe3639 and its residue W71 both played essential roles in the formation of twitching motility by L. enzymogenes. Mutation of pilZLe3639 in wild-type OH11 led to a complete defect in forming twitching motility, as no twitching cells (indicated by blight arrows) were observed at the margin of strain colony. Complementing the wild-type PilZLe3639 or a variant carrying a Y24-A24 substitution (indicated as Y24A) into the mutant both rescued this motile deficiency. Introducing the empty vector (pBBR1-MCS5, abbreviated as pBBR) or the pilZLe3639 variant possessing a W71-A71 replacement (indicated as W71A) failed to rescue the twitching deficiency of the pilZLe3639 mutantBack to article page