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ArticleJournal of bacteriology1997

Identification of the fliI and fliJ components of the Caulobacter flagellar type III protein secretion system.

C Stephens, C Mohr, C Boyd, J Maddock, J Gober, L Shapiro

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

C StephensDepartment of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, California 94305-5427, USA. cstephens@mailer.scu.edu
C Mohr
C Boyd
J Maddock
J Gober
L Shapiro
Stanford University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF DIFFERENTIATION IN CAULOBACTERR01GM032506 · NIGMS · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI SHAPIRO, LUCILLE · 1985 to 2014
$7.1M
REGULATION OF DIFFERENTIATION IN CAULOBACTERR37GM032506 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SHAPIRO, LUCILLE · 1993 to 2002
$1.4M
RNA POLYMERASE HETEROGENEITY IN CAULOBACTER DEVELOPMENTF32GM014179 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI STEPHENS, CRAIG M · 1991 to 1993
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM14179NIGMS NIH HHS GM32506
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caulobacter crescentus is motile by virtue of a polar flagellum assembled during the predivisional stage of the cell cycle. Three mutant strains in which flagellar assembly was blocked at an early stage were isolated. The mutations in these strains mapped to an operon of two genes, fliI and fliJ, both of which are necessary for motility. fliI encodes a 50-kDa polypeptide whose sequence is closely related to that of the Salmonella typhimurium FliI protein, an ATPase thought to energize the export of flagellar subunits across the cytoplasmic membrane through a type III protein secretion system. fliJ encodes a 16-kDa hydrophilic protein of unknown function. Epistasis experiments demonstrated that the fliIJ operon is located in class II of the C. crescentus flagellar regulatory hierarchy, suggesting that the gene products act at an early stage in flagellar assembly. The expression of fliIJ is induced midway through the cell cycle, coincident with other class II operons, but the FliI protein remains present throughout the cell cycle. Subcellular fractionation showed that FliI is present both in the cytoplasm and in association with the membrane. Mutational analysis of FliI showed that two highly conserved amino acid residues in a bipartite ATP binding motif are necessary for flagellar assembly.

Indexed as

Proton-Translocating ATPasesAmino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsBase SequenceCaulobacter crescentusCell MembraneCytoplasmFlagellaGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialGenetic Complementation TestMolecular Sequence DataMutationOpen Reading FramesOperonPromoter Regions, GeneticBacterial ProteinsfliI protein, bacteriafliJ protein, BacteriaProteinsProton-Translocating ATPasesRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID9286988
PMCPMC179404
OpenAlexW1830806060

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