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Isolation and characterization of FliK-independent flagellation mutants from Salmonella typhimurium.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 1994
Kutsukake K, Minamino T, Yokoseki T
Abstract excerpt
A flagellum of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli consists of three structural parts, a basal body, a hook, and a filament. Because the fliK mutants produce elongated hooks, called polyhooks, lacking filament portions, the fliK gene product has been believed to be involved in both the determination of hook length and the initiation of the filament assembly. In the present study, we isolated two mutants...
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