Flagellar filament elongation can be impaired by mutations in the hook protein FlgE of Salmonella typhimurium: a possible role of the hook as a passage for the anti-sigma factor FlgM.

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Among motile revertants isolated from flagellar hook-deficient (flgE) mutants of Salmonella typhimurium, one produced only short flagellar filaments in L broth, despite the fact that flagellin itself has the ability to polymerize into long filaments in vitro. This pseudorevertant has an intragenic suppressor, resulting in a two-amino-acid substitution (Asp-Gln-->Ala-Arg) in the C-terminal region of the hook...

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