Structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals mechanism for flagellin incorporation
Rosa Einenkel,
Kailin Qin,
Julia Schmidt
et al.
Abstract:The bacterial flagellum is essential for motility, adhesion, and colonization in pathogens like Salmonella enterica and Campylobacter jejuni. Its extracellular structure comprises the hook, hook-filament junction, filament, and filament cap. The native structures of the hook-filament junction and the cap remain elusive, leaving the molecular details of cap-mediated filament assembly largely uncharacterized. Here, we report the structure of the complete extracellular flagellum, encompassing the hook, hook-filam… Show more
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