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Bacterial Flagella: Flagellar Motor
Many species of bacteria actively seek out favourable conditions for growth by swimming up gradients of nutrients, oxygen, light or other attractants, or down gradients away from toxic substances (repellants). Different species employ several different modes of swimming, almost all of which are driven by the rapid rotation of helical flagellar filaments that protrude from the cell. Rotation of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.3542