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SUBMITTER: Terashima H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5774414 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biophysics and physicobiology 20171219
The bacterial flagellum is a supramolecular motility machine consisting of the basal body as a rotary motor, the hook as a universal joint, and the filament as a helical propeller. Intact structures of the bacterial flagella have been observed for different bacterial species by electron cryotomography and subtomogram averaging. The core structures of the basal body consisting of the C ring, the MS ring, the rod and the protein export apparatus, and their organization are well conserved, but nove ...[more]