Flagella are highly complex rotary molecular machines that enable bacteria to not only migrate to optimal environments but to also promote range expansion, competitiveness, virulence, and antibiotic survival. Flagellar motility is an energy-demanding process, where the sum of its production (biosynthesis) and operation (rotation) costs has been estimated to total ~10% of the entire energy budget of an
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