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SUBMITTER: Renault TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5386592 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Renault Thibaud T TT Abraham Anthony O AO Bergmiller Tobias T Paradis Guillaume G Rainville Simon S Charpentier Emmanuelle E Guet Călin C CC Tu Yuhai Y Namba Keiichi K Keener James P JP Minamino Tohru T Erhardt Marc M
eLife 20170306
The bacterial flagellum is a self-assembling nanomachine. The external flagellar filament, several times longer than a bacterial cell body, is made of a few tens of thousands subunits of a single protein: flagellin. A fundamental problem concerns the molecular mechanism of how the flagellum grows outside the cell, where no discernible energy source is available. Here, we monitored the dynamic assembly of individual flagella using in situ labelling and real-time immunostaining of elongating flage ...[more]