Nanorotors and self-assembling macromolecular machines: The torque ring of the bacterial flagellar motor

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 545-554

  Stock, Daniela ^a,b   Namba, Keiichi ^c,d   Lee, Lawrence K ^a,b  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LEVELS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLAR; BIOMOLECULAR COMPLEXES; MECHANICAL ROTATION; MOLECULAR MACHINERY; NANOMACHINES; NANOROTOR; ON CURRENTS; SELF-ASSEMBLING;

MACHINERY; MUTAGENESIS;

TORQUE MOTORS;

MOLECULAR MOTOR; POTEIN FLIG; POTEIN MOTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; TORQUE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; ROTATION; SALMONELLA; TORQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864825241     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2012.01.008     Document Type: Review

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