title: Structure of the core and central channel of bacterial flagella.
abstract: X-ray fibre diffraction analysis of bacterial flagellar filaments has allowed the subunit packing and secondary structure arrangement in the filament core to be determined. The central hole, presumably a channel for flagellin transport, is large enough to accommodate the folded elongated flagellin molecules during their transport to the distal end for filament growth.
authors.affiliation: ERATO, Molecular Dynamic Assembly Project, Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Namba
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vonderviszt
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005407:Flagella / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005408:Flagellin / Q000378:metabolism; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009154:Mutation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D005408:Flagellin