Type III secretion systems and bacterial flagella: Insights into their function from structural similarities

  1. Ariel Blocker*,†,
  2. Kaoru Komoriya*, and
  3. Shin-Ichi Aizawa‡
  1. *Sir W. Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom; and ‡Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, Utsunomiya 320-8551, Japan

Abstract

Type III secretion systems and bacterial flagella are broadly compared at the level of their genetic structure, morphology, regulation, and function, integrating structural information, to provide an overview of how they might function at a molecular level.

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  • ↵ † To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ariel.blocker{at}path.ox.ac.uk.

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  1. Published online before print March 11, 2003, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0535335100 PNAS March 18, 2003 vol. 100 no. 6 3027-3030
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