title: The Agrobacterium tumefaciens motor gene, motA, is in a linked cluster with the flagellar switch protein genes, fliG, fliM and fliN.
abstract: We report the sequence of 3978 bp of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens chromosome which contains a putative operon encoding the homologues of the transmembrane proton channel protein MotA, and the flagellar switch proteins FliM, FliN and FliG. Two transposon insertions in fliG result in a non-flagellate phenotype, indicating that this gene at least is required for flagellar assembly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, UK.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Deakin
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sanderson
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Goswami
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D016960:Agrobacterium tumefaciens / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005407:Flagella / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D009876:Operon; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C063010:MotA protein, Bacteria