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From: Sodium-driven energy conversion for flagellar rotation of the earliest divergent hyperthermophilic bacterium

Figure 1

Schematic cartoon of the flagellum and the stator proteins.

(A) The flagellum is a large complex composed of many proteins and consists of a filament, a hook and a basal body. A. aeolicus has most genes for flagellar component except for FliM. (B) The stator is composed of two membrane proteins, MotA (blue) and MotB (red). MotA is a four TM protein and MotB is single TM protein. The spontaneous mutated Alanine residue is indicated as ‘A’ in the black circle. Black arrowhead, border of chimeric MotB: OM, outer membrane; PG, peptidoglycan layer; IM, inner membrane.

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