The Archaellum: How Archaea Swim
Recent studies on archaeal motility have shown that the archaeal motility structure is unique in several aspects as, although it fulfills the same swimming function as the bacterial flagellum, it is evolutionary and structurally related to the type IV pilus. This was the basis for the recent proposa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00023/full |