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Key amino acid residues involved in the transitions of L- to R-type protofilaments of the Salmonella flagellar filament.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 2013
Hayashi Fumio, Tomaru Hidetoshi, Furukawa Eiji, Ikeda Kanae, Fukano Hiroko, Oosawa Kenji
Abstract excerpt
The flagellar filament enables bacteria to swim by functioning as a helical propeller. The filament is a supercoiled assembly of a single protein, flagellin, and is formed by 11 protofilaments arranged in a circle. Bacterial swimming and tumbling correlate with changes of the various helical structures, called polymorphic transformation, that are determined by the ratios of two distinct forms of protofilaments,...
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