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J Bacteriol. 1987 April; 169(4): 1493-1498

The flaFIX gene product of Salmonella typhimurium is a flagellar basal body component with a signal peptide for export.

ABSTRACT

flaFIX, the structural gene for the periplasmic P ring of the flagellar basal body of Salmonella typhimurium, was cloned. Two gene products with apparent molecular weights of 38,000 and 40,000 were identified by minicell analysis. Data from pulse-chase and membrane fractionation experiments and data on the inhibitory effect of the proton ionophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone all indicated that the 40-kilodalton protein was a precursor form which, after export across the cytoplasmic membrane accompanied by cleavage of a signal peptide, gave rise to the mature protein in the periplasm. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the FlaFIX protein, predicted from the DNA sequence, conformed well to known signal peptide sequences. The results indicate that the P-ring protein of the basal body (unlike flagellin and possible some other external flagellar components) crosses the cytoplasmic membrane in a conventional signal peptide-dependent manner.

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