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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2000, p. 5001-5004, Vol. 182, No. 17
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Family of Six Flagellin Genes Contributes to the Caulobacter crescentus Flagellar Filament

Bert Ely,1,* Tracey W. Ely,1 William B. Crymes Jr.,1 and Scott A. Minnich2

Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208,1 and Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 838432

Received 20 March 2000/Accepted 8 June 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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Phone: (803) 777-2768. Fax: (803) 777-4002. E-mail: Ely{at}sc.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2000, p. 5001-5004, Vol. 182, No. 17
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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