Researchers reveal how filaments form coiled shapes
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): The ability of E. coli and other bacteria to travel has long been a mystery, but it has now been resolved by researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and its associates.
Using their long, threadlike appendages as makeshift propellers, bacteria move ahead by coiling them into corkscrew forms. The "propellers" are formed of a single protein, thus experts are confuse