Ely B, Ely T W, Crymes W B, Minnich S A
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2000 Sep;182(17):5001-4. doi: 10.1128/JB.182.17.5001-5004.2000.
The Caulobacter crescentus flagellar filament is assembled from multiple flagellin proteins that are encoded by six genes. The amino acid sequences of the FljJ and FljL flagellins are divergent from those of the other four flagellins. Since these flagellins are the first to be assembled in the flagellar filament, one or both might have specialized to facilitate the initiation of filament assembly.
新月柄杆菌的鞭毛丝由六个基因编码的多种鞭毛蛋白组装而成。FljJ和FljL鞭毛蛋白的氨基酸序列与其他四种鞭毛蛋白不同。由于这些鞭毛蛋白是最早在鞭毛丝中组装的,其中一个或两个可能已经特化以促进鞭毛丝组装的起始。