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A novel dnaJ family gene, sflA, encodes an inhibitor of flagellation in marine Vibrio species.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2013
Kitaoka Maya, Nishigaki Takehiko, Ihara Kunio, Nishioka Noriko, Kojima Seiji, Homma Michio
Abstract excerpt
The marine bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus has a single polar flagellum. Formation of that flagellum is regulated positively and negatively by FlhF and by FlhG, respectively. The ΔflhF mutant makes no flagellum, whereas the ΔflhFG double-deletion mutant usually lacks a flagellum. However, the ΔflhFG mutant occasionally reverts to become motile by forming peritrichous flagella. We have isolated a suppressor...
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