Novel 'cross-kymography' visualization method enables first direct observation of rotation and morphology of the archaellum in a swimming archaeon Microorganisms have sophisticated motility mechanisms ...

Archaea use flagella known as archaella—distinct both in protein composition and structure from bacterial flagella—to drive cell motility, but the structural basis of this function is unknown. Here, ...

The protein structure of the archaellum, the motor that propels many species of Archaea, the third domain of life, has been characterized for the first time. A ring made of six identical proteins ...

The protein structure of the motor that propels archaea has been characterized for the first time by a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...