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- Title
Coordinating assembly of a bacterial macromolecular machine.
- Authors
Chevance, Fabienne F V; Hughes, Kelly T
- Abstract
The assembly of large and complex organelles, such as the bacterial flagellum, poses the formidable problem of coupling temporal gene expression to specific stages of the organelle-assembly process. The discovery that levels of the bacterial flagellar regulatory protein FlgM are controlled by its secretion from the cell in response to the completion of an intermediate flagellar structure (the hook-basal body) was only the first of several discoveries of unique mechanisms that coordinate flagellar gene expression with assembly. In this Review, we discuss this mechanism, together with others that also coordinate gene regulation and flagellar assembly in Gram-negative bacteria.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 6, p455
- ISSN
1740-1534
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro1887