FliK, the protein responsible for flagellar hook length control in Salmonella, is exported during hook assembly

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 295-304

  Minamino, Tohru ^a   González Pedrajo, Bertha ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Kenta ^c   Aizawa, Shin Ichi ^c   Macnab, Robert M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLAGELLUM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; FLAGELLA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERIPLASM; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032827183     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01597.x     Document Type: Article

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