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. 1996 Aug;71(2):918–923. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79295-0

Torque-generating units of the bacterial flagellar motor step independently.

A D Samuel 1, H C Berg 1
PMCID: PMC1233549  PMID: 8842231

Abstract

Measurements of the variance in rotation period of tethered cells as a function of mean rotation rate have shown that the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli is a stepping motor. Here, by measurement of the variance in rotation period as a function of the number of active torque-generating units, it is shown that each unit steps independently.

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