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SUBMITTER: Onoue Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6079164 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onoue Yasuhiro Y Takekawa Norihiro N Nishikino Tatsuro T Kojima Seiji S Homma Michio M
MicrobiologyOpen 20180324 4
Many bacteria rotate their flagella both counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) to achieve swimming toward attractants or away from repellents. Highly conserved charged residues are important for that motility, which suggests that electrostatic interactions are crucial for the rotor-stator function. It remains unclear if those residues contribute equally to rotation in the CCW and CW directions. To address this uncertainty, in this study, we expressed chimeric rotors and stators from Vibrio a ...[more]