2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Labeling of torque generation site of bacterial flagellar motors
| Project/Area Number |
21870036
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Biophysics
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | べん毛モーター / ナノマシン |
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| Research Abstract |
The bacterial flagellar motor is a rotary nano-machine of～ 50 nm in diameter. This rotary motor possesses many insights to build artificial nano-machines, e. g. fast rotation, switching of motor direction and so on. To reveal its rotation mechanism, we have tried to develop a method to observe the torque generation sites of the motor. As a result, we succeeded in labeling the functional motor by fluorescent dyes.
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