flagellar
Adjective
Meaning
flagellar (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to a flagellum
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Free Press, New York In other words, the flagellar apparatus is " irreducibly complex ".
The filament ends with a capping protein. citation citation The flagellar filament is the long helical screw that propels the bacterium when rotated by the motor, through the hook.
Correlation of swimming behaviour and flagellar rotation Behavior The overall movement of a bacterium is the result of alternating tumble and swim phases.
However, the flagellar system appears to involve more proteins overall, including various regulators and chaperones, hence it has been argued that flagella evolved from a TTSS.
PMID 16936039 Hence the flagellar apparatus is clearly very flexible in evolutionary terms and perfectly able to lose or gain protein components.