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Impacts of multiflagellarity on stability and speed of bacterial locomotion
Trajectories and conformations of uni- and multiflagellar bacteria are studied with a coarse-grained model of a cell comprised of elastic flagella connected to a cell body. The elasticities of both the hook protein (connecting cell body and flagellum) and flagella are varied. Flexibility plays contrasting roles for uni- and multiflagellar …