A Delicate Nanoscale Motor Made by Nature—The Bacterial Flagellar Motor

The bacterial flagellar motor (BFM) is a molecular complex ca. 45 nm in diameter that rotates the propeller that makes nearly all bacteria swim. The motor self‐assembles out of ca. 20 different proteins and can not only rotate at up to 50 000 rpm, but can also switch rotational direction in millisec...

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Autores principales: Xue, Ruidong, Ma, Qi, Baker, Matthew A. B., Bai, Fan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Progress Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500129
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description The bacterial flagellar motor (BFM) is a molecular complex ca. 45 nm in diameter that rotates the propeller that makes nearly all bacteria swim. The motor self‐assembles out of ca. 20 different proteins and can not only rotate at up to 50 000 rpm, but can also switch rotational direction in milliseconds and navigate its environment to maneuver, on average, towards regions of greater benefit. The BFM is a pinnacle of evolution that informs and inspires the design of novel nanotechnology in the new era of synthetic biology.
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spelling pubmed-51153862016-12-15 A Delicate Nanoscale Motor Made by Nature—The Bacterial Flagellar Motor Xue, Ruidong Ma, Qi Baker, Matthew A. B. Bai, Fan Adv Sci (Weinh) Progress Reports The bacterial flagellar motor (BFM) is a molecular complex ca. 45 nm in diameter that rotates the propeller that makes nearly all bacteria swim. The motor self‐assembles out of ca. 20 different proteins and can not only rotate at up to 50 000 rpm, but can also switch rotational direction in milliseconds and navigate its environment to maneuver, on average, towards regions of greater benefit. The BFM is a pinnacle of evolution that informs and inspires the design of novel nanotechnology in the new era of synthetic biology. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5115386/ /pubmed/27980978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500129 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Delicate Nanoscale Motor Made by Nature—The Bacterial Flagellar Motor
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title_sort delicate nanoscale motor made by nature—the bacterial flagellar motor
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