Flagellar motors are locomotive organelles located in bacterial cell envelopes and push the cell in its environment. These motors are composed of a variety of proteins and consist of a rotary motor, a universal joint, and a helical filament [2]. They are driven by the flow of ions down their concentration gradient with respect to the cytoplasmic membrane through a stator, and are regulated by the chemotaxis pathway. The stator complex serves as a channel to couple the proton flow with a torque generation that occurs at the interface between the stator(s) and a rotor. The torque generation and stator assembly around the rotor require highly conserved charged residues to be present [1,3].
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This is an image of the components of FliG and FliM (PDB files 3AJC and 3SOH, respectively)
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