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J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.00730-07
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The chemotactic control of the two flagellar systems of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is mediated by different sets of CheY and FliM proteins

Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: gdreyfus{at}ifc.unam.mx.

	Abstract

Rhodobacter sphaeroides expresses two different flagella, a subpolar flagellum (fla1) and multiple polar flagella (fla2). These structures are encoded by different sets of flagellar genes. The chemotactic control of the subpolar flagellum (fla1) is mediated by three of the six different CheY proteins (CheY6, CheY4 or CheY3). We show evidence that CheY1, CheY2 and CheY5 control the chemotactic behavior mediated by fla2 flagella and that RSP6099 encodes the fla2 FliM protein.