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SUBMITTER: Cohen EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963725 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170401 6334
The bacterial flagellum exemplifies a system where even small deviations from the highly regulated flagellar assembly process can abolish motility and cause negative physiological outcomes. Consequently, bacteria have evolved elegant and robust regulatory mechanisms to ensure that flagellar morphogenesis follows a defined path, with each component self-assembling to predetermined dimensions. The flagellar rod acts as a driveshaft to transmit torque from the cytoplasmic rotor to the external fila ...[more]