Swimming of peritrichous bacteria is enabled by an elastohydrodynamic instability

Abstract Peritrichously-flagellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, self-propel in fluids by using specialised motors to rotate multiple helical filaments. The rotation of each motor is transmitted to a short flexible segment called the hook which in turn transmits it to a flagellar filament, en...

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Main Authors: Emily E. Riley, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/223a6e40a9224c349d9a2edf18f77b27
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