Interaction of FIiK with the bacterial flagellar hook is required for efficient export specificity switching

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-251

  Minamino, Tohru ^a,b,c   Moriya, Nao ^a   Hirano, Takanori ^d   Hughes, Kelly T ^d   Namba, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLIB PROTEIN; FLIK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLIK PROTEIN, SALMONELLA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE SWITCHING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SECRETION; WILD TYPE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350180743     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06871.x     Document Type: Article

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