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Targeting bacterial motility: Prospective therapeutic countermeasures.

Yilin Sun¹, Pengcheng Wang², Yidan Chai¹

¹School of Food and Pharmacy, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China.

Microbiological Research

|October 16, 2025

Summary

Targeting microbial motility, essential for host colonization and virulence, offers a novel antivirulence strategy. This approach disarms pathogens with minimal resistance, paving the way for new combination therapies.

Keywords:

Biological interference C-di-GMP signaling Filament Motility Quorum sensing Two-component system

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Microbiology
Pathogen Virulence Mechanisms
Antimicrobial Strategies

Background:

Microbial motility is crucial for host colonization, transmission, and virulence.
Environmental cues regulate diverse microbial motility mechanisms.
Targeting motility presents a promising antivirulence strategy.

Purpose of the Study:

To review current and developing countermeasures against microbial motility.
To explore direct and indirect strategies for inhibiting motility.
To critically analyze the limitations and challenges of antimotility interventions.

Main Methods:

Review of literature on filament-based and gliding/sliding motility mechanisms.
Analysis of indirect strategies targeting c-di-GMP signaling, quorum sensing, and two-component systems.
Inclusion of biological interference methods like metabolites and bacteriophages.

Main Results:

Identified direct targeting of motility assembly, structure, and secretion.
Described indirect strategies influencing motility via signaling pathways.
Highlighted biological interference and promising novel approaches.

Conclusions:

Targeting microbial motility is a novel antivirulence paradigm.
This strategy disarms pathogens while minimizing resistance pressure.
Antimotility interventions offer a promising direction for future combination therapies.