Flagellar Structures from the Bacterium Caulobacter crescentus and Implications for Phage <b> <i>ϕ</i> </b> CbK Predation of Multiflagellin Bacteria
Eric Montemayor, Nicoleta Ploscariu, Juan C Sanchez, Daniel Parrell, Rebecca S. Dillard, Conrad W. Shebelut, Zunlong Ke, Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Elizabeth Wright
Abstract
for infection by bacteriophage ϕCbK. We find that filaments containing the FljK flagellin are the preferred substrate for bacteriophage ϕCbK. We also present a high-resolution structure of a flagellar filament containing only the FljK flagellin, which provides a platform for future studies on determining how bacteriophage ϕCbK attaches to flagellar filaments at the molecular level.
Topics & Concepts
Caulobacter crescentusFlagellinFlagellumBacteriophageBiologyPilusProtein filamentBacteriaPilinGeneCell biologyMicrobiologyGeneticsEscherichia coliBacterial proteinBacteriophages and microbial interactionsBacterial Genetics and BiotechnologyProtist diversity and phylogeny