Internal and external components of the bacterial flagellar motor rotate as a unit

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

Volumn 113, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4783-4787

  Hosu, Basarab G ^a,b   Nathan, Vedavalli S J ^b   Berg, Howard C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C ring; Escherichia coli; Polarized fluorescence bleaching

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLIN PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; PHOTOBLEACHING; ROTATION;

EID: 84964725445     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511691113     Document Type: Article

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