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1/ Here is the #Tweetorial presenting the story behind our paper on the structure and function of #StatorUnits of the bacterial #FlagellarMotor published in @CellCellPress!
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2/ Many bacteria swim by rotating their flagella, a motion crucial for survival and pathogenicity. Flagellar rotation is bidirectional: in Salmonella and E. coli, counterclockwise (CCW) rotation causes the cell to swim forward, while clockwise (CW) rotation causes it to tumble.
3/ The flagellum is made of an external filament, a flexible hook and a motor. This motor consists of a rotor surrounded by a ring of stator units (MotAB). #MotAB is an ion channel that powers the rotation of the motor using energy from the transmembrane ion gradient (H+ or Na+). 
