The bacterial flagellum and its assembly process. Credit: Osaka University Many bacteria are equipped with a flagellum, a helical propeller that allows bacteria to travel.

The bacterial flagellum is a motor whose assembly occurs in an ordered, stepwise fashion. However, the molecular details of this ordered assembly are poorly understood. Researchers used high-speed ...

(Osaka, Japan) One of the oldest nanomachines in biology is the bacterial flagellum. This apparatus is evolutionary essential, endowing onto bacteria the ability to move. The flagellum shares high ...

If you remember anything from middle school biology, you might recall a little something called the "bacterial flagellum."It is, in the simplest terms, a tiny little tail that bacterium will swish ...

The best studied flagellum, of the E. coli bacterium, contains around 40 different kinds of proteins. Only 23 of these proteins, however, are common to all the other bacterial flagella studied so far.

New mechanistic insights into the protein complex that powers the bacterial flagellum may assist antibiotic development. A study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) used ...

More information: Tatsuro Nishikino et al, Structural insight into sodium ion pathway in the bacterial flagellar stator from marine Vibrio, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024 ...