Following the Behavior of the Flagellar Rotary Motor Near Zero Load
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Yuan, Junying, and Howard Curtis Berg. 2009. Following the behavior of the flagellar rotary motor near zero load. Experimental Mechanics, published online 09 September 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/content/5np0175062378620/Abstract
At room temperature at stall, the flagellar motor of the bacteriumEscherichia 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.
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