Flagellar filament of bacteria

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R vs. L formsR vs. L forms

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The R form of the flagellar filament was obtained in 2003[1] by fitting a crystallographic model of the monomer[2] into an electron cryomicroscopic density map with resolution as good as 4 Å. The resulting R form monomer, 1ucu, included terminal alpha helices that had to be removed in order to obtain the crystallographic model.


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  1. Yonekura K, Maki-Yonekura S, Namba K. Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature. 2003 Aug 7;424(6949):643-50. PMID:12904785 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature01830
  2. Samatey FA, Imada K, Nagashima S, Vonderviszt F, Kumasaka T, Yamamoto M, Namba K. Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature. 2001 Mar 15;410(6826):331-7. PMID:11268201 doi:10.1038/35066504
  3. Chemically possible morph generated by the Yale Morph Server (molmovdb.org), 1ucu to 3a5x.

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