Nature Communications (May 2021)

Cooperative stator assembly of bacterial flagellar motor mediated by rotation

  • Kenta I. Ito,
  • Shuichi Nakamura,
  • Shoichi Toyabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23516-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Ito and co-workers unravel how bacteria such as Salmonella switch gears with their flagellar driving machinery. External load triggers the dynamic remodeling of the molecular complex sustaining the torque, and the number of stator units is adapted in a non-trivial, cooperative manner.