Swimming Using a Unidirectionally Rotating, Single Stopping Flagellum in the Alpha Proteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Rhodobacter sphaeroides has 2 flagellar operons, one, Fla2, encoding a polar tuft that is not expressed under laboratory conditions and a second, Fla1, encoding a single randomly positioned flagellum. This single flagellum, unlike the flagella of other species studied, only rotates in a counterclock...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.893524/full |