Dynamics of the bacterial flagellar motor with multiple stators

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3746-3751

  Meacci, Giovanni ^a   Tu, Yuhai ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Model; Rotary; Speed fluctuation; Stepping statistics; Torque speed relationship

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MOTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TORQUE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAGELLA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 62649097678     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809929106     Document Type: Article

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