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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2021

Dynamics of the Two Stator Systems in the Flagellar Motor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Studied by a Bead Assay.

Zhengyu Wu, Maojin Tian, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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Zhengyu Wu *Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Chinagrid.59053.3a, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Maojin Tian *Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Chinagrid.59053.3a, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Rongjing ZhangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Chinagrid.59053.3a, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Junhua YuanHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Chinagrid.59053.3a, Hefei, Anhui, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6437-0655

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 11925406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We developed a robust bead assay for studying flagellar motor behavior of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Using this assay, we studied the dynamics of the two stator systems in the flagellar motor. We found that the two sets of stators function differently, with MotAB stators providing higher total torque and MotCD stators ensuring more stable motor speed. The motors in wild-type cells adjust the stator compositions according to the environment, resulting in an optimal performance in environmental exploration compared to that of mutants with one set of stators. The bead assay we developed in this investigation can be further used to study P. aeruginosa chemotaxis at the level of a single cell using the motor behavior as the chemotaxis output.

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ChemotaxisPseudomonas aeruginosaFlagellabead assayflagellar motorstator

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PMID34524895
PMCPMC8580004

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