Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery

Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery

Motile archaea swim by means of a molecular machine called the archaellum. This structure consists of a filament attached to a membrane-embedded motor. The archaellum is found exclusively in members of the archaeal domain, but the core of its motor shares homology with the motor of type IV pili (T4P...

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Main Authors: João Nuno de Sousa Machado, Sonja-Verena Albers, Bertram Daum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
archaea
archaellum motor
cell motility
type IV pili
archaella
molecular motors
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.848597/full

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