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Type III secretion systems and bacterial flagella: insights into their function from structural similarities.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·Vol. 100 ·No. 6 ·2003-03-18 ·Pages 3027-30

Blocker A, Komoriya K, Aizawa S

Abstract

Type III secretion systems and bacterial flagella are broadly compared at the level of their genetic structure, morphology, regulation, and function, integrating structural information, to provide an overview of how they might function at a molecular level.

MeSH Terms
Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism Bacterial Proteins/physiology Biological Transport, Active Energy Metabolism Flagella/physiology,ultrastructure Genes, Bacterial Gram-Negative Bacteria/genetics,physiology,ultrastructure Molecular Chaperones/physiology
Chemicals
Bacterial Proteins Molecular Chaperones Adenosine Triphosphatases
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Blocker Ariel
Sir W. Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom. [email protected]
Komoriya Kaoru
Aizawa Shin-Ichi
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abbr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
DOI
10.1073/pnas.0535335100
Email
[email protected]
Published
2003-03-18
Epub
2003-00-11
Pages
3027-30
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505876
PMCID
PMC152238
Subset
IM
Grants
NIAID NIH HHS · K22 AI 01847 · United States
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