Insights into the stator assembly of the Vibrio flagellar motor from the crystal structure of MotY

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7696-7701

  Kojima, Seiji ^a   Shinohara, Akari ^b   Terashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Yakushi, Toshiharu ^a,b,d   Sakuma, Mayuko ^a   Homma, Michio ^a,b   Namba, Keiichi ^b,c   Imada, Katsumi ^b,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial flagellum; Peptidoglycan binding; Sodium driven motor; T ring

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MOTY; MOTY PROTEIN, VIBRIO; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BINDING KINETICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ASSAY; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; FLAGELLUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLAGELLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 45549087026     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800308105     Document Type: Article

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