Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction
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Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction
Bacteria swim by rotating rigid helical flagella and periodically reorienting to follow environmental cues1,2. Despite the crucial role of reorientations, their underlying mechanism has remained unknown for most uni-flagellated bacteria3,4. Here, we report that uni-flagellated bacteria turn by exploiting a finely tuned buckling instability of their hook, the 100-nm-long structure at the base of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Physics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1745-2473,1745-2481
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2676