Electrostatic interactions between rotor and stator in the bacterial flagellar motor.

doi:10.1073/pnas.95.11.6436

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Electrostatic interactions between rotor and stator in the bacterial flagellar motor.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 May 1998

Zhou J, Lloyd S A, Blair D F

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Bacterial flagellar motors rotate, obtaining power from the membrane gradient of protons or, in some species, sodium ions. Torque generation in the flagellar motor must involve interactions between components of the rotor and components of the stator. Sites of interaction between the rotor and st...

Topics

Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
Flagella
Mutation
Static Electricity

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