Substrate specificity of type III flagellar protein export in Salmonella is controlled by subdomain interactions in FlhB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1043-1057

  Fraser, Gillian M ^a,b   Hirano, Takanori ^a,c   Ferris, Hedda U ^a   Devgan, Lara L ^a   Kihara, May ^a   Macnab, Robert M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN FLHB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE FLIC; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SALMONELLA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0038016732     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03487.x     Document Type: Article

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