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Hidden stochastic nature of a single bacterial motor.
Physical review letters - 10 Feb 2006
Korobkova Ekaterina A, Emonet Thierry, Park Heungwon, Cluzel Philippe
Abstract excerpt
The rotary flagellar motor of Escherichia coli bacterium switches stochastically between the clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) direction. We found that the CW and CCW intervals could be described by a gamma distribution, suggesting the existence of hidden Markov steps preceding each motor switch. Power spectra of time series of switching events exhibited a peaking frequency instead of the Lorentzian...
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