Revealed: molecular motors provide energy to "feed" bacteria

Researchers at the CNRS and the Institut Pasteur have discovered the mechanism by which nutrients enter a bacterium. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies, they have completed the puzzle of a sequence of events in the bacterial envelope. They deciphered the workings of a "molecular motor" that brings nutrients into bacteria, and explain how energy circulates to bring them in. The proof is in the pictures.

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