Imaging the Machinery of Bacterial Locomotion at Atomic Resolution

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1022495

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Our aim is to a) understand and b) sabotage the machinery of locomotion in bacteria. The flagellar motor propels bacteria at 100s of revolutions per second through viscous media making this the most powerful motor known to man. Bacteria can sense their environment and make informed decisions to avoid hazards or find food. Understanding how this machinery works in atomic detail is expected to have implications for both the development of new antibacterials and in the area of nano-medicine.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $360,732.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

bacteria | crystallography | membrane protein | structural biology | structure-function

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