Bacterial flagellum as a propeller and as a rudder for efficient chemotaxis

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

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2246-2251

  Xie, Li ^a   Altindal, Tuba ^a   Chattopadhyay, Suddhashil ^a   Wu, Xiao Lun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial chemotaxis; Bacterial swimming pattern

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

FLAGELLIN;

CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLIN; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 79952289766     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011953108     Document Type: Article

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