The bacterial flagellar motor and its structural diversity

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 267-274

  Minamino, Tohru ^a   Imada, Katsumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial flagellum; Flagellar assembly; Protein export; Rotary motor; Stator assembly

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HYLEMONELLA GRACILIS; HYPHOMONAS; HYPHOMONAS NEPTUNIUM; KINETOSOME; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PRIMITIA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; VIBRIO;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTON; SODIUM;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTONS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SODIUM;

EID: 84937634207     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.011     Document Type: Review

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