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Functional Regulators of Bacterial Flagella
Sundharraman Subramanian1,2, Daniel B Kearns3
1Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
Abstract:
Bacteria move by a variety of mechanisms, but the best understood types of motility are powered by flagella (72). Flagella are complex machines embedded in the cell envelope that rotate a long extracellular helical filament like a propeller to push cells through the environment. The flagellum is one of relatively few biological machines that experience continuous 360° rotation, and it is driven by one of the most powerful motors, relative to its size, on earth. The rotational force (torque) generated at the base of the flagellum is essential for motility, niche colonization, and pathogenesis. This review describes regulatory proteins that control motility at the level of torque generation.
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