The reversible spiral twisting of the flagellar propeller arises from combinations of interconvertible left- and right-tilted arrays of identical flagellin subunits, mediated by the restraints of their inner tube domains in 11 near-axial protofilament strands of different length in the flagellum.
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Caspar, D. Bacterial flagellar coiling explained by slip-and-click strand switching. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5, 92–94 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0298-92
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