A family of six flagellin genes contributes to the Caulobacter crescentus flagellar filament.
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.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. Ely@sc.edu
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D016935:Caulobacter crescentus / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005408:Flagellin / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017385:Sequence Homology
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005408:Flagellin