Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Impairing the flagellum would deliver a critical, but not fatal, blow to bacteria. This is a new approach and contrasts to traditional antibiotics, which are designed to kill all bacteria in their ...

Microscopic 'Clutch' Puts Flagellum In Neutral Date: June 23, 2008 Source: Indiana University Summary: A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is ...

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.

Flagellum failure lets bacteria turn Buckling of appendage drives tiny two-point turn TINY RUDDER Over the course of 90 milliseconds, a bacterial cell (Vibrio alginolyticus) makes a hard right turn.

The flagellum is one of nature's smallest and most powerful motors. The flagellum of some bacteria can, for example, rotate more than 200 times per second, driven by 1,400 piconewton-nanometers of ...

To function properly and propel the bacterium, the flagellum requires all of its components to fit together to exacting measurements. In a new study, researchers report the eludication of a ...

The beating of their long flagellum both propels them through the water and creates a current that helps them to collect bacteria and food particles in the collar of 30 to 40 tentaclelike ...

THREE years before his death in 1805, English philosopher William Paley proposed a now-famous thought experiment. Imagine discovering a watch on the heath: how would you explain its ...

The single flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei has been unveiled as a key player in determining cell polarity, division, size and shape. The flagellum, an appendage whose structure is conserved from ...