How to Use flagellar in a Sentence

flagellar

adjective
  • The flagellar bundle falls apart, and the cell tumbles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Berg guessed that the flagellar motor was a rotor that turned the flagellum like a screw.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • How, though, can the flagellar motor switch directions?
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The workings of the flagellar motor are ingenious indeed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In this way, protons effectively pedal the engine of the flagellar motor.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The flagellar motor was discovered by the late Howard Berg, an ingenious experimenter who spent most of his career at Harvard.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Recall that a flagellar motor switches directions, causing the bacterium to tumble, when environmental conditions seem to be getting worse.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Improvements over the last 15 years in an imaging technique called cryo-EM (cryogenic electron microscopy) have enabled researchers to see the flagellar motor’s component parts.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But as soon as one flagellar motor reverses direction and starts rotating clockwise, the bundle falls apart; the reverse-twirling filament unravels the braid and puts the cell’s flagellar motors at cross-purposes, kicking the cell around.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Further experiments indicated that the flagellar motor also switches direction.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The proton motive force that drives the flagellar motor was proposed in 1961 by Peter Mitchell, a biochemist who worked out of his own private lab at a country estate in Cornwall, England.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Since the discovery of the bacterial flagellar motor in the 1970s, biologists and creationists alike have marveled at its design like medieval architects staring with awe at the dome of the Pantheon built by their Roman ancestors.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026

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