Bacterial Flagella Loss under Starvation.

Siqi Zhu, Beile Gao

Trends in microbiology 2020 Oct

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The bacterial flagellum is beneficial in most cases but it can become a burden when the energy source is low because it is very costly to assemble and energize for motility. Recent electron cryo-tomography and real-time fluorescence microscopy studies suggest that bacteria can remove their flagella under starvation in a programmed way. Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Ltd.