 FliM (source code)

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= FliM
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A switch-complex <protein> involved in reception of phosphorylated <CheY> and control of rotational bias.

Binding of phosphorylated <CheY> changes the switch’s rotational bias. A change in bias alters the balance of swimming behaviours without requiring the motor to sense external attractant directly. <Change in direction of flagellar rotation is the basis of the chemotactic response in Escherichia coli by S. H. Larsen and others>[1974, tethered-cell motor-direction response]{ref}

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