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Jiaxing Tan1, Xing Zhang2, Xiaofei Wang3

  • 1Department of Biophysics and Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Life Sciences Institute and School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China; The MOE Key Laboratory for Biosystems Homeostasis & Protection and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Cancer Molecular Cell Biology, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China; Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.

Cell
|April 21, 2021
PubMed
概括

研究人员揭示了细菌鞭毛电机的原子结构, 这种复杂的蛋白质机器对于细菌的运动和生存至关重要. 这一突破澄清了鞭子旋转的扭矩传递方式.

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一个 LP 环欧盟国家细菌鞭毛运动器细菌的运动性低温电子显微镜出口设备鞭子一个子一个棒扭矩传输

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