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

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1129-1139

  Saito, Tokuo ^a,d   Ueno, Takamasa ^b   Kubori, Tomoko ^a,e   Yamaguchi, Shigeru ^c   Iino, Tetsuo ^d   Aizawa, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; FLAGELLIN; GLUTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; FLAGELLUM; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHYLCELLULOSE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031907962     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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