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Straight and rigid flagellar hook made by insertion of the FlgG specific sequence into FlgE

The bacterial flagellar hook connects the helical flagellar filament to the rotary motor at its base. Bending flexibility of the hook allows the helical filaments to form a bundle behind the cell body to produce thrust for bacterial motility. The hook protein FlgE shows considerable sequence and str...

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Autores principales: Hiraoka, Koichi D., Morimoto, Yusuke V., Inoue, Yumi, Fujii, Takashi, Miyata, Tomoko, Makino, Fumiaki, Minamino, Tohru, Namba, Keiichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28429800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46723