title: Following the Behavior of the Flagellar Rotary Motor Near Zero Load.
abstract: At room temperature at stall, the flagellar motor of the bacteriumEscherichia coliexerts a torque of ~1300 pN nm. At zero external load, it spins ~330 Hz. A robust method for studying the motor near zero load is reviewed here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Berg
keywords: Bacterial motility; Light scattering; Nano-gold