Spirochetes flagellar collar protein FlbB has astounding effects in orientation of periplasmic flagella, bacterial shape, motility, and assembly of motors in Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 336-348

  Moon, Ki Hwan ^a   Zhao, Xiaowei ^b   Manne, Akarsh ^a   Wang, Juyu ^b   Yu, Zhou ^a   Liu, Jun ^b   Motaleb, Md A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLBB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 84990184423     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13463     Document Type: Article

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