A molecular brake, not a clutch, stops the Rhodobacter sphaeroides flagellar motor

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

Volumn 106, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 11582-11587

  Pilizota, Teuta ^a,c   Brown, Mostyn T ^b   Leake, Mark C ^a,b   Branch, Richard W ^a   Berry, Richard M ^a   Armitage, Judith P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEY PROTEIN; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TORQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 67650908932     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813164106     Document Type: Article

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