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Motor powered by Mycoplasma mobile gliding motility

Species name: Mycoplasma

Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Daisuke Nakane

Mycoplasma mobile is moving, and driving an impeller adhered to itself. It glides over ring track with green light in a clockwise rotation. A mycoplasma adheres with an impeller and propels about 20μm impeller to move in the clockwise direction.

(2012.09.18)

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