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ArticleBiophysical journal2006

Mesoscopic modeling of bacterial flagellar microhydrodynamics.

Yeshitila Gebremichael, Gary S Ayton, Gregory A Voth

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Reduced surface accumulation of swimming bacteria in viscoelastic polymer fluids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  6. Verification, validation and sensitivity studies in computational biomechanics.Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yeshitila GebremichaelCenter for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Gary S Ayton
Gregory A Voth
University of Utah · US

Funding

SIMULATIONS OF PROTON TRANSLOCATION IN BIOMOLECULESR01GM053148 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI VOTH, GREGORY A. · 1996 to 2021
$5.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM053148NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM053148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A particle-based hybrid method of elastic network model and smooth-particle hydrodynamics has been employed to describe the propulsion of bacterial flagella in a viscous hydrodynamic environment. The method explicitly models the two aspects of bacterial propulsion that involve flagellar flexibility and long-range hydrodynamic interaction of low-Reynolds-number flow. The model further incorporates the molecular organization of the flagellar filament at a coarse-grained level in terms of the 11 protofilaments. Each of these protofilaments is represented by a collection of material points that represent the flagellin proteins. A computational model of a single flexible helical segment representing the filament of a bacterial flagellum is presented. The propulsive dynamics and the flow fields generated by the motion of the model filament are examined. The nature of flagellar deformation and the influence of hydrodynamics in determining the shape of deformations are examined based on the helical filament.

Indexed as

Bacterial Physiological PhenomenaModels, BiologicalComputer SimulationFlagellaMicrofluidicsMotion

Identifiers

PMID16935949
PMCPMC1630491
OpenAlexW2010548231

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