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Energy source of flagellar type III secretion.
Nature - 24 Jan 2008
Paul Koushik, Erhardt Marc, Hirano Takanori, Blair David F, Hughes Kelly T
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial flagella contain a specialized secretion apparatus that functions to deliver the protein subunits that form the filament and other structures to outside the membrane. This apparatus is related to the injectisome used by many gram-negative pathogens and symbionts to transfer effector proteins into host cells; in both systems this export mechanism is termed 'type III' secretion. The flagellar secretion...
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