Swimming Using a Unidirectionally Rotating, Single Stopping Flagellum in the Alpha Proteobacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Rhodobacter sphaeroides has 2 flagellar operons, one, Fla2, encoding a polar tuft that is not expressed under laboratory conditions and a second, Fla1, encoding a single randomly positioned flagellum. This single flagellum, unlike the flagella of other species studied, only rotates in a counterclockwise direction. Long periods of smooth swimming are punctuated by short stops, caused by the binding of one of 3 competing CheY homologs to the motor. During a stop, the motor is locked, not freely rotating, and the flagellar filament changes conformation to a short wavelength, large amplitude structure, reforming into a driving helix when the motor restarts. The cell has been reoriented during the brief stop and the next period of smooth swimming is a new direction.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Frontiers in Microbiology

• Publication date

  2022-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2022.893524PMID 35722353PMCID 9198570
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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