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A motile but non-swarming mutant of Proteus mirabilis lacks FlgN, a facilitator of flagella filament assembly.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1997
Gygi D, Fraser G, Dufour A, Hughes C
Abstract excerpt
A TnphoA mutant of Proteus mirabilis was isolated, which had lost the ability to swarm, yet was still motile. The transposon had inserted into flgN, a flagella gene encoding a 147-amino-acid protein of undefined function. Proteus flgN is arranged in an operon with the class III anti-sigma28 gene, flgM, flanked by the class II genes, flgA, flgBCD and flhBA, and a novel putative virulence-related gene. The flgN...
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