New Twists and Turns in Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction
Watts KJ, Vaknin A, Fuqua C, Kazmierczak BI. New Twists and Turns in Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction. Journal Of Bacteriology 2019, 201: 10.1128/jb.00439-19. PMID: 31358610, PMCID: PMC6755736, DOI: 10.1128/jb.00439-19.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal transductionTwo-component signal transduction pathwayTwo-component signal transduction systemBacterial locomotionContribution of motilityCryo-electron tomographySignal transduction systemSystems biology approachSignal transduction pathwaysIndividual bacterial cellsMulticellular organismsProkaryotic organismsBiology approachChemosensory receptorsFlagellar motorPathogenic interactionsTransduction pathwaysTransduction systemIndividual proteinsSensing pathwaysProtein labelingBehavior of thousandsComplex ecosystemsProtein spaceLiving cellsIn Situ Structures of Polar and Lateral Flagella Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography
Zhu S, Schniederberend M, Zhitnitsky D, Jain R, Galán JE, Kazmierczak BI, Liu J. In Situ Structures of Polar and Lateral Flagella Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography. Journal Of Bacteriology 2019, 201: 10.1128/jb.00117-19. PMID: 31010901, PMCID: PMC6560136, DOI: 10.1128/jb.00117-19.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCryo-electron tomographyBacterial flagellaFlagellar assemblyPolar flagellumPeritrichous flagellaSerovar TyphimuriumSpecies-specific featuresBacterial pathogensOuter membrane complexSelf-assembling nanomachineFlagellar systemFlagellar structureFlagellar numberSubtomogram averagingMembrane complexLateral flagellaStructural basisDistinct flagellaMolecular machinesFlagellaSitu structureModel systemPseudomonasTyphimuriumRange of variation