Protein turbines. I: The bacterial flagellar motor. |
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| Authors: | T C Elston and G Oster |
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| Affiliation: | Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 87545, USA. |
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| Abstract: | The bacterial flagellar motor is driven by a flux of ions between the cytoplasm and the periplasmic lumen. Here we show how an electrostatic mechanism can convert this ion flux into a rotary torque. We demonstrate that, with reasonable parameters, the model can reproduce many of the experimental measurements. |
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