flagellum - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • encode: This indicates a common ancestry, although no TTSS sequence homologues for the genes encoding the flagellum are found.
  • build: Research Title: How does Vibrio cholerae build a flagellum at its old cell pole?
  • use: It is not just protists that use flagella for locomotion.
  • develop: Sometimes, however, an ameba will issue from the spore, remain quiescent for a few minutes, and then develop flagella.

Adjective modifier

  • bacterial: The bacterial flagellum is driven by a proton motive force resulting from a gradient of protons.
  • single: Polarity is clearly seen in Vibrio cholerae, a highly motile pathogen that swims by rapidly rotating a single polar flagellum.
  • posterior: The phylum Chytridiomycota has traditionally been characterized on the basis of motile cells with a single posterior flagellum.
  • polar: Polarity is clearly seen in Vibrio cholerae, a highly motile pathogen that swims by rapidly rotating a single polar flagellum.

Modifies a noun

  • biogenesis: V. cholerae builds only one flagellum per cell, suggesting that there must be a close coupling between flagellum biogenesis and cell division.
  • function: This latter finding is of critical importance since we also show that flagellum function is essential to the survival of bloodstream trypanosomes.

Noun used with modifier

  • coli: The E coli flagellum has about 40 different kinds of proteins to make it work.

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