Structural insight into the rotational switching mechanism of the bacterial flagellar motor

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Minamino, Tohru ^a,b   Imada, Katsumi ^a   Kinoshita, Miki ^a   Nakamura, Shuichi ^a,c   Morimoto, Yusuke V ^a   Namba, Keiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLIG; PROTEIN FLIGC; PROTEIN FLIGM; PROTEIN FLIGMC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLIG PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ROTATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA ENTERICA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FLAGELLA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; ROTATION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 79958063382     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000616     Document Type: Article

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