Structure of the bacterial flagellar hook and implication for the molecular universal joint mechanism

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1062-1068

  Samatey, Fadel A ^a,b,c   Matsunami, Hideyuki ^a,b,c   Imada, Katsumi ^a,b,c   Nagashima, Shigehiro ^a,c   Shaikh, Tanvir R ^d,f   Thomas, Dennis R ^d   Chen, James Z ^d   DeRosier, David J ^d   Kitao, Akio ^e   Namba, Keiichi ^a,b,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROTEINS; SWITCHING; TORQUE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

FLAGELLAR HOOKS; HELICAL PROPELLAR; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOTILE ORGANELLE;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; PROTEIN FLGE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLGE PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

BIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 7744246770     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02997     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Macnab, R. M. How bacteria assemble flagella. Annu. Rev. Micrabiol. 57, 77-100 (2003).
2. Berg, H. C. The rotary motor of bacterial flagella. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 72, 19-54 (2003).
3. Kojima, S. & Blair, D. The bacterial flagellar motor: structure and function of a complex molecular machine. Inf. Rev. Cytol. 233, 93-1 34 (2004).
4. DePamphilis, M. L. & Adler, J. Purification of intact flagella from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 105, 376-383 (1971).
5. DePamphilis, M. L. & Adler, J. Fine structure and isolation of the hook-basal body complex of flagella from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 105, 384-395 (1971).
6. Berg, H. C. & Anderson, R. A. Bacteria swim by rotating their flagellar filaments. Nature 245, 380-382 (1973).
7. Silverman, M. &Simon, M. Flagellar rotation and the mechanism of bacterial motility. Nature 249, 73-74 (1974).
8. Namba, K. & Vonderviszt, F. Molecular architecture of bacterial flagellum. Q. Rev. Biophys. 30, 1-65 (1997).
9. Macnab, R. M. &Ornston, M. K. Normal-to-curly flagellar transitions and their role in bacterial tumbling. Stabilization of an alternative quaternary structure by mechanical force. J. Mol. Biol. 112, 1-30 (1977).
10. Turner, L., Ryu, W. S. & Berg, H. C. Real-time imaging of fluorescent flagellar filaments. J. Bacteriol. 182, 2793-2801 (2000).
11. Wagenknecht, T., DeRosier, D. J., Aizawa, S.-I. & Macnab, R. M. Flagellar hook structures of Caulobacter and Salmonella and their relationship to filament structure. J. Mol. Biol. 162, 69-87 (1982).
12. Kagawa, H., Aizawa, S. I. & Asakura, S, Transformations in isolated polyhooks. J. Mol. Biol. 129, 333-336 (1979).
13. Williams, A. W. et al. Mutation in fltK and flhB affecting flagellar hook and filament assembly in Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 178, 2960-2970 (1996).
14. Hirano, T., Yamaguchi, S., Oosawa, K. & Aizawa, S.-I. Roles of FliK and FlhB in the determination of flagellar hook length in Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 176, 5439-5449 (1994).
15. Wagenlcnecht, T., DeRosier, D. J., Shapiro, L. & Weissborn, A. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the flagellar hook from Caulobacter crescentus. J. Mol. Biol. 151, 439-465 (1981).
16. Kutsukake, K., Suzuki, T., Yamaguchi, S. & Iino, T. Role of gene flaFV on flagellar hook formation in Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 140, 267-275 (1979).
17. Aizawa, S, & Maeda, Y. A new method for determination of parity in optical diffraction patterns from the structures with helical symmetry. J. Mol. Biol. 137, 437-442 (1980).
18. Kato, S., Okamoto, M. & Asakura, S. Polymorphic transition of the flagellar polyhook from Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. J. Mol. Biol. 173, 463-476 (1984).
19. Morgan, D. G., Macnab, R. M., Francis, N. R. & DeRosier, D. J. Domain organization of the subunit of the Salmonella typhimurium flagellar hook. J. Mol. Biol. 229, 79-84 (1993).
20. Homma, M., DeRosier, D. J. & Macnab, R. M. Flagellar hook and hook-associated proteins of Salmonella typhimurium and their relationship to other axial components of the flagellum. J. Mol. Biol. 213, 819-832 (1990).
21. Samatey, F. A. et al. Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature 410, 331-337 (2001).
22. Samatey, F. A., Imada, K., Vonderviszt, F., Shirakihara, Y. & Namba, K. Crystallization of the F4L fragment of flagellin and data collection from extremely thin crystals. J. Struct. Biol. 132, 106-111 (2000).
23. Vonderviszt, F., Ishima, R., Akasaka, K. & Aizawa, S. Terminal disorder: a common structural feature of the axial proteins of bacterial flagellum? J. Mol. Biol. 226, 575-579 (1992).
24. Vonderviszt, F., Zavodszky, P., Ishimura, M., Uedaira, H. & Namba, K. Structural organization and assembly of flagellar hook protein from Salmonella typhimuriurn. J. Mol. Biol. 251, 520-532 (1995).
25. Holm, L. & Sander, C. Protein structure comparison by alignment of distance matrices. J. Mol. Biol. 233, 123-138 (1993).
26. Yonekura, K., Maki-Yonekura, S. & Namba, K. Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature 424, 643-650 (2003).
27. Chen, I. Z., Fürst, J., Chapman, M. S. & Grigorieff, N. Low resolution structure refinement in electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol 144, 144-151 (2003).
28. Hasegawa, K., Yamashita, I. & Namba, K. Quasi- and non equivalence in the structure of bacterial flagellar filament. Biaphys. J. 74, 569-575 (1998).
29. Lowe, G., Meister, M. & Berg, H. C. Rapid rotation of flagellar bundles in swimming bacteria. Nature 325, 637-640 (1987).
30. Kudo, S., Magariyama, Y. & Aizawa, S. Abrupt changes in flagellar rotation observed by laser dark-field microscopy. Nature 346, 677-680 (1990).
31. Yamashita, I, et al. Structure and switching of bacterial flagellar filaments studied by X-ray fiber diffraction. Nature Struct. Biol 5, 125-132 (1998).
32. Fahrner, K. A., Block, S. M., Krishnaswamy, S., Parkinson, J. S. & Berg, H. C. A mutant hook-associated protein (HAP3) facilitates torsionally induced transformations of the flagellar filament of Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol 238, 173-186 (1994).
33. Samatey, F. A., Matsunami, H., Imada, K., Nagashima, S. & Namba, K. Crystallization of a core fragment of the hook protein FlgE. Acta Crystallogr. D (in the press).
34. Orwinowski, Z. & Minor, W. Processing of X-ray Diffraction Data Collected in Oscillation Mode (Academic, New York, 1997).
35. Powell, H. R. The Rossmann Fourier autoindexing algorithm in MOSFLM. Acta Crystallogr, D 55, 1690-1695 (1999).
36. Collaborative Computational Project No. 4, The CCP4 suite: Programs for protein crystallography. Acta Crystallogr. D 50, 760-763 (1994).
37. Terwilliger, T. C. & Berendzen, J. Automated structure solution for MIR and MAD. Acta Crystallogr. D 55, 849-861 (1999).
38. Terwilliger, T. C. Maximum-likelihood density modification. Acta Crystallogr. D 56, 965-972 (2000).
39. Perrakis, A., Morris, R. & Lamzin, V. S. Automated protein model building combined with iterative structure refinement. Nature Struct. Biol. 6, 458-463 (1999).
40. Jones, T. A., Zhou, J. Y., Cowan, S. W. & Kjeldgaard, M. Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models. Acta Crystallogr. A 47, 110-119 (1991).
41. Murshudov, G. N., Vagin, A. A. & Dodson, E. J. Refinement of macromolecular structures by the maximum-likelihood method. Acta Crystallogr. D 53, 240-255 (1997).
42. Francis, N. R., Sosinsky, G. E., Thomas, D. J. DeRosier, D. J. Isolation, characterization and structure of bacterial flagellar motors containing the switch complex. J. Mol. Biol. 235, 1261-1270 (1994).
43. Morgan, D. G., Owen, C., Melanson, L. A. & DeRosier, D. J. Structure of bacterial flagellar filaments at II Å resolution: packing of the alpha-helices. J. Mol. Biol. 249, 88-110 (1995).
44. Case, D. A., et al. AMBER7. (Univ. California, San Francisco, California, 2002).
45. Krautis, P. J. MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures. J. Appl. Crystallogr. 24, 946-950 (1991).
46. Merritt, E. A. & Bacon, D. J. Raster3D: Photorealistic molecular graphics. Methods Enzymol. 277, 505-524 (1997).