bacterial flagella

bacterial flagella
Thin filaments composed of flagellin subunits that are rotated by the basal motor assembly and act as propellors. If rotating anticlockwise (as viewed from the flagellar tip) the bacterium moves in a straight path, if clockwise the bacterium "tumbles".

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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