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Variation in bacterial flagellins: from sequence to structure.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Apr 2006
Beatson Scott A, Minamino Tohru, Pallen Mark J
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial motility relies chiefly on the rotation of a molecular propeller, the flagellar filament, which is constructed from the protein flagellin. Here, flagellin sequence conservation and diversity is examined in the light of the recently determined flagellar filament structure. As expected, the surface-exposed domains are not conserved. However, the sequences that mediate filament assembly show remarkable...
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