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Role of FliJ in flagellar protein export in Salmonella.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 2000
Minamino T, Chu R, Yamaguchi S, Macnab R M
Abstract excerpt
We isolated and characterized spontaneous mutants with defects in the 147-amino-acid Salmonella protein FliJ, which is a cytoplasmic component of the type III flagellar export apparatus. These mutants, including ones with null mutations, have the ability to form swarms on motility agar plates after prolonged incubation at 30 degrees C; i.e., they display a leaky motile phenotype. One mutant, SJW277, which formed...
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