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SUBMITTER: Kitao A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1458766 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kitao Akio A Yonekura Koji K Maki-Yonekura Saori S Samatey Fadel A FA Imada Katsumi K Namba Keiichi K Go Nobuhiro N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060320 13
Bacterial flagellar filament is a macromolecular assembly consisting of a single protein, flagellin. Bacterial swimming is controlled by the conformational transitions of this filament between left- and right-handed supercoils induced by the flagellar motor torque. We present a massive molecular dynamics simulation that was successful in constructing the atomic-level supercoil structures consistent with various experimental data and further in elucidating the detailed underlying molecular mechan ...[more]