Flagellar Motility Is Mutagenic

Authors

Souvik Bhattacharyya
Shelby Lopez
Abhyudai Singh
Rasika M Harshey

Language

English

Publication Date

10-8-2024

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI

10.1073/pnas.2412541121

PMID

39352926

PMCID

PMC11474059

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

10-1-2024

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Abstract

Flagella are highly complex rotary molecular machines that enable bacteria to not only migrate to optimal environments but also to promote range expansion, competitiveness, virulence, and antibiotic survival. Flagellar motility is an energy-demanding process, where the sum of its production (biosynthesis) and operation (rotation) costs has been estimated to total ~10% of the entire energy budget of an

Keywords

Flagella, Escherichia coli, Mutation, Mutation Rate, Movement, Escherichia coli Proteins, Biological Evolution, flagella, E. coli, evolution, mutation

Published Open-Access

yes

Recommended Citation

Bhattacharyya, Souvik; Lopez, Shelby; Singh, Abhyudai; et al., "Flagellar Motility Is Mutagenic" (2024). Faculty, Staff and Student Publications. 5354.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/uthgsbs_docs/5354