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SUBMITTER: Zhao Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5951861 | biostudies-other | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20180514 1
The bacterial flagellum is a large extracellular protein organelle that extrudes from the cell surface. The flagellar filament is assembled from tens of thousands of flagellin subunits that are exported through the flagellar type III secretion system. Here, we measure the growth of Escherichia coli flagella in real time and find that, although the growth rate displays large variations at similar lengths, it decays on average as flagella lengthen. By tracking single flagella, we show that the lar ...[more]