ArticleBiophysical journal2013
Single-file diffusion of flagellin in flagellar filaments.
Article in Biophysical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Bacterial motility depends on a critical flagellum length and energy-optimized assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Bacterial Flagellar Filament: A Supramolecular Multifunctional Nanostructure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
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- Protein Export via the Type III Secretion System of the Bacterial Flagellum.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Cryoelectron-microscopy structure of the enteropathogenicProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Bacterial Vivisection: How Fluorescence-Based Imaging Techniques Shed a Light on the Inner Workings of Bacteria.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020Review
- Construction and Loss of Bacterial Flagellar Filaments.Biomolecules · 2020Review
- Frequent pauses in Escherichia coli flagella elongation revealed by single cell real-time fluorescence imaging.Nature communications · 2018Article
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- Length-dependent flagellar growth ofeLife · 2017Article
- Coupling volume-excluding compartment-based models of diffusion at different scales: Voronoi and pseudo-compartment approaches.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2016Article
- Type III secretion systems: the bacterial flagellum and the injectisome.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Fueling type III secretion.Trends in microbiology · 2015Review
- Building a flagellum outside the bacterial cell.Trends in microbiology · 2014Review
- The structure and regulation of flagella in Bacillus subtilis.Annual review of genetics · 2014Review
- A chain mechanism for flagellum growth.Nature · 2013Article
- Ratcheted diffusion transport through crowded nanochannels.Scientific reports · 2013Article
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Abstract
A bacterial flagellar filament is a cylindrical crystal of a protein known as flagellin. Flagellin subunits travel from the cytoplasm through a 2 nm axial pore and polymerize at the filament's distal end. They are supplied by a pump in the cell membrane powered by a proton-motive force. In a recent experiment, it was observed that growth proceeded at a rate of approximately one subunit every 2 s. Here, we asked whether transport of subunits through the pore at this rate could be effected by single-file diffusion, which we simulated by a random walk on a one-dimensional lattice. Assuming that the subunits are α-helical, the answer is yes, by a comfortable margin.
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