Steps in the bacterial flagellar motor

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Mora, Thierry ^a   Yu, Howard ^a   Sowa, Yoshiyuki ^b   Wingreen, Ned S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

ANGULAR POSITIONS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLAR; CONTACT FORCES; ENERGY; FLAGELLAR MOTORS; LOW SPEED; MODEL-BASED OPC; RANDOM WALK; ROTARY MACHINE; SIMPLE PHYSICAL MODELS;

TORQUE;

PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; FORCE; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; POSITION; PREDICTION; ROTATION; SIMULATION; STORAGE; TORQUE; VELOCITY; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 71549120560     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000540     Document Type: Article

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