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Dynamism and regulation of the stator, the energy conversion complex of the bacterial flagellar motor.
Current opinion in microbiology - 1 Dec 2015
Kojima Seiji
Abstract excerpt
Many motile bacteria swim by rotating their motility organ, the flagellum. Rotation of the flagellum is driven by a motor at its base, and torque is generated by the rotor-stator interaction coupled with the specific ion flow through the channel in the stator. Because the stator works as an energy-conversion complex in the motor, understanding the functional mechanism of the stator is critically important. But...
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