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SUBMITTER: Riley EE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048115 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Riley Emily E EE Das Debasish D Lauga Eric E
Scientific reports 20180716 1
Peritrichously-flagellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, self-propel in fluids by using specialised motors to rotate multiple helical filaments. The rotation of each motor is transmitted to a short flexible segment called the hook which in turn transmits it to a flagellar filament, enabling swimming of the whole cell. Since multiple motors are spatially distributed on the body of the organism, one would expect the propulsive forces from the filaments to push against each other leading to n ...[more]