Structure of the core and central channel of bacterial flagella

K Namba; I Yamashita; F Vonderviszt

doi:10.1038/342648a0

Structure of the core and central channel of bacterial flagella

Nature. 1989 Dec 7;342(6250):648-54. doi: 10.1038/342648a0.

Authors

K Namba¹, I Yamashita, F Vonderviszt

Affiliation

¹ ERATO, Molecular Dynamic Assembly Project, Tsukuba, Japan.

PMID: 2687696
DOI: 10.1038/342648a0

Abstract

X-ray fibre diffraction analysis of bacterial flagellar filaments has allowed the subunit packing and secondary structure arrangement in the filament core to be determined. The central hole, presumably a channel for flagellin transport, is large enough to accommodate the folded elongated flagellin molecules during their transport to the distal end for filament growth.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Flagella / physiology
Flagella / ultrastructure*
Flagellin / metabolism
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Protein Conformation
Salmonella typhimurium / ultrastructure*
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

Flagellin