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Bacterial engines have their own clutch
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6-20-2008 8:30 PM
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Just an interesting fact how designs made by evolution already predated almost any mechanical trick we have invented, or thought we did.
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To stop cells moving, it bends the rotor molecule so that it no longer touches the proton motor, the researchers report in <SPAN class="i">Science </SPAN><SUP><A href="#B1" linkindex="20" set="yes">1</A></SUP>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080619/full/news.2008.903.html">The flagellum is still free to turn — hence the description of <SPAN class="i">epsE </SPAN> as a clutch, and not a brake — but friction rapidly brings the cell to a halt.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080619/full/news.2008.903.html">Some nanotechnologists have dreamed of harnessing bacterial rotors as molecular pumps, he adds. 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