Bacterial flagella grow through an injection-diffusion mechanism

Bacterial flagella grow through an injection-diffusion mechanism

The bacterial flagellum is a self-assembling nanomachine. The external flagellar filament, several times longer than a bacterial cell body, is made of a few tens of thousands subunits of a single protein: flagellin. A fundamental problem concerns the molecular mechanism of how the flagellum grows ou...

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Main Authors: Thibaud T Renault, Anthony O Abraham, Tobias Bergmiller, Guillaume Paradis, Simon Rainville, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Călin C Guet, Yuhai Tu, Keiichi Namba, James P Keener, Tohru Minamino, Marc Erhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-03-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
bacterial flagellum
continuous-flow immunostaining
injection-diffusion mechanism
proton motive force
Salmonella enterica
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/23136

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