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The role of conserved charged residues in the bidirectional rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor.
MicrobiologyOpen - 1 Aug 2018
Onoue Yasuhiro, Takekawa Norihiro, Nishikino Tatsuro, Kojima Seiji, Homma Michio
Abstract excerpt
Many bacteria rotate their flagella both counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) to achieve swimming toward attractants or away from repellents. Highly conserved charged residues are important for that motility, which suggests that electrostatic interactions are crucial for the rotor-stator function. It remains unclear if those residues contribute equally to rotation in the CCW and CW directions. To address...
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