Flagellar hook flexibility is essential for bundle formation in swimming Escherichia coli cells

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3495-3501

  Brown, Mostyn T ^a,b   Steel, Bradley C ^b   Silvestrin, Claudio ^b   Wilkinson, David A ^a   Delalez, Nicolas J ^b   Lumb, Craig N ^a   Obara, Boguslaw ^a,b   Armitage, Judith P ^a   Berry, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOTINYLATION; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTINYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; STREPTAVIDIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864003621     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00209-12     Document Type: Article

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