Building a flagellum patterns (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 03:22 (3421 days ago) @ David Turell

The pattern for bacterial flagella are the same, with modification. More pattern evidence:-"Bacteria that can swim propel themselves with corkscrew tails anchored in rotary motors. That may seem surprisingly mechanical for a microbe, but it is a system that has been wildly popular and conserved across billions of years of evolution.-"The basic motor design is a rotating driveshaft embedded in a series of rings that act as stators, the stationary part of a mechanical rotor system. The rings are themselves embedded in the cell wall and cell membranes — the skins of bacterial cells. Most of the rings appear to stabilize the driveshaft, but in one ring near the base (called the MS ring below) are a set of motor proteins that turn the base of the flagellum."