A distant homologue of the FlgT protein interacts with MotB and FliL and is essential for flagellar rotation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5285-5296

  Fabela, Salvador ^a   Domenzain, Clelia ^a   De la Mora, Javier ^b   Osorio, Aurora ^a   Ramirez Cabrera, Victor ^a   Poggio, Sebastian ^a   Dreyfus, Georges ^b   Camarena, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLGT; PROTEIN FLIL; PROTEIN MOTB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYTOPLASM; FLGT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84887525457     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00760-13     Document Type: Article

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