Yoshiaki Kinosita et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(43), 26766-26772 (2020-10-15)
Archaea swim using the archaellum (archaeal flagellum), a reversible rotary motor consisting of a torque-generating motor and a helical filament, which acts as a propeller. Unlike the bacterial flagellar motor (BFM), ATP (adenosine-5'-triphosphate) hydrolysis probably drives both motor rotation and