Bacterial flagellar motors and osmoelectric molecular rotation by an axially transmembrane well and turnstile mechanism

FEBS Letters

Mitchell, Peter¹ 

[1] Glynn Research Institute, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 4 AU, England

关键词: Bioenergetics;    Bacterial flagellar motor;    Biomechanics;    Osmoelectric molecular rotation;    Well and turnstile system;   

DOI  :  10.1016/0014-5793(84)81182-5

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Bacterial ion-driven flagellar motors are the smallest known rotatory mechanical devices, natural or artificial, their overall diameter being only about 25 nm or one millionth of an inch. They are unique in the fields of biology and engineering. This paper develops a possible osmoelectric or local electrokinetic mechanism of molecular rotatory motion in bilayer membranes, which may help to explain how bacterial flagellar motors work, and may incidentally encourage new developments in the bioenergetics and biomechanics of enzyme, osmoenzyme and porter action.

【 授权许可】

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