Flagellin redundancy in Caulobacter crescentus and its implications for flagellar filament assembly

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2695-2707

  Faulds Pain, Alexandra ^a,b,f   Birchall, Christopher ^a,b   Aldridge, Christine ^a,b   Smith, Wendy D ^a,b   Grimaldi, Giulia ^a,b   Nakamura, Shuichi ^c   Miyata, Tomoko ^c   Gray, Joe ^a   Li, Guanglai ^d   Tang, Jay X ^d   Namba, Keiichi ^c,e   Minamino, Tohru ^c,e   Aldridge, Phillip D ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; FLAGELLIN J; FLAGELLIN K; FLAGELLIN L; FLAGELLIN M; FLAGELLIN N; FLAGELLIN O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL MOTILITY; FLAGELLAR FILAMENT ASSEMBLY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LOCOMOTION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 79958158232     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01172-10     Document Type: Article

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