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Yuan, Junying
Following the Behavior of the Flagellar Rotary Motor Near Zero Load
At room temperature at stall, the flagellar motor of the bacterium Escherichia coli exerts a torque of ~1300 pN nm. At zero external load, it spins ~330 Hz. Techniques for studying the motor near zero load are novel and are summarized here.