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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2006, p. 7700-7706, Vol. 188, No. 21
0021-9193/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00820-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Novel Conserved Assembly Factor of the Bacterial Flagellum{triangledown}

Björn Titz,1,{dagger} Seesandra V. Rajagopala,1,2,{dagger} Claudia Ester,1 Roman Häuser,1 and Peter Uetz1,2*

Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany,1 The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 208502

Received 8 June 2006/ Accepted 14 August 2006

TP0658 (FliW) and its orthologs, conserved proteins of unknown function in Treponema pallidum and other species, interact with a C-terminal region of flagellin (FlaB1-3 in T. pallidum; FliC in most other species). Mutants of orthologs in Bacillus subtilis and Campylobacter jejuni (yviF, CJ1075) showed strongly reduced motility. TP0658 stabilizes flagellin in a way similar to FliS, suggesting that TP0658 is a conserved assembly factor for the bacterial flagellum.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany. Phone: 49-7247-82-6103. Fax: 49-7247-82-3354. E-mail: peter.uetz{at}itg.fzk.de.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 25 August 2006.

{dagger} B.T. and S.V.R. contributed equally to this study.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 2006, p. 7700-7706, Vol. 188, No. 21
0021-9193/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00820-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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