Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery

Motile archaea swim by means of a molecular machine called the archaellum. This structure consists of a filament attached to a membrane-embedded motor. The archaellum is found exclusively in members of the archaeal domain, but the core of its motor shares homology with the motor of type IV pili (T4P...

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Autores principales: Nuno de Sousa Machado, João, Albers, Sonja-Verena, Daum, Bertram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Microbiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35387068
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.848597
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description Motile archaea swim by means of a molecular machine called the archaellum. This structure consists of a filament attached to a membrane-embedded motor. The archaellum is found exclusively in members of the archaeal domain, but the core of its motor shares homology with the motor of type IV pili (T4P). Here, we provide an overview of the different components of the archaellum machinery and hypothetical models to explain how rotary motion of the filament is powered by the archaellum motor.
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spelling pubmed-89787952022-04-05 Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery Nuno de Sousa Machado, João Albers, Sonja-Verena Daum, Bertram Front Microbiol Microbiology Motile archaea swim by means of a molecular machine called the archaellum. This structure consists of a filament attached to a membrane-embedded motor. The archaellum is found exclusively in members of the archaeal domain, but the core of its motor shares homology with the motor of type IV pili (T4P). Here, we provide an overview of the different components of the archaellum machinery and hypothetical models to explain how rotary motion of the filament is powered by the archaellum motor. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8978795/ /pubmed/35387068 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.848597 Text en Copyright © 2022 de Sousa Machado, Albers and Daum. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_fullStr Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery
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title_short Towards Elucidating the Rotary Mechanism of the Archaellum Machinery
title_sort towards elucidating the rotary mechanism of the archaellum machinery
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978795/
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