A novel component of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Fla1 flagellum is essential for motor rotation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 6174-6183

  Ramírez Cabrera, Victor ^a   Poggio, Sebastian ^a   Domenzain, Clelia ^a   Osorio, Aurora ^a   Dreyfus, Georges ^b   Camarena, Laura ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; FLIL GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOTB GENE; MOTF GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTATION; PERIPLASM; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84869145315     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00850-12     Document Type: Article

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