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SUBMITTER: Kuhn MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6299084 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kühn Marco J MJ Schmidt Felix K FK Farthing Nicola E NE Rossmann Florian M FM Helm Bina B Wilson Laurence G LG Eckhardt Bruno B Thormann Kai M KM
Nature communications 20181218 1
Bacterial flagella are helical proteinaceous fibers, composed of the protein flagellin, that confer motility to many bacterial species. The genomes of about half of all flagellated species include more than one flagellin gene, for reasons mostly unknown. Here we show that two flagellins (FlaA and FlaB) are spatially arranged in the polar flagellum of Shewanella putrefaciens, with FlaA being more abundant close to the motor and FlaB in the remainder of the flagellar filament. Observations of swim ...[more]