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Knee speed of flagellar motor at room temperature

Range	E. coli ~175HZ: V. alginolyticus ∼450Hz Hz
Organism	bacteria
Reference	Inoue Y, Lo CJ, Fukuoka H, Takahashi H, Sowa Y, Pilizota T, Wadhams GH, Homma M, Berry RM, Ishijima A. Torque-speed relationships of Na+-driven chimeric flagellar motors in Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol. 2008 Mar 7 376(5):1251-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.12.023. p.1252 left column top paragraphPubMed ID18207160
Comments	"A common feature of the torque–speed relationships of E. coli and V. alginolyticus is a sharp knee between a “plateau” of nearly constant torque at low speeds and a much steeper linear decrease of torque with speed at higher speeds. At room temperature the knee is at ~175 Hz in E. coli and at~450Hz in V. alginolyticus, and the zero-torque speeds are ~350 and ~700 Hz, respectively. In E. coli, the knee speed and zero-torque speed are temperature dependent, but the plateau torque is not."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	109788