Flagellar motility and structure in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Zalan Szabo; Musa Sani; Maarten Groeneveld; Benham Zolghadr; James Schelert; Sonja-Verena Albers; Paul Blum; Egbert J. Boekema; Arnold J. M. Driessen

doi:10.1128/JB.00042-07

Flagellar motility and structure in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Zalan Szabo
, Musa Sani
, Maarten Groeneveld
, Benham Zolghadr
, James Schelert
, Sonja-Verena Albers
, Paul Blum
, Egbert J. Boekema
, Arnold J. M. Driessen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Flagellation in archaea is widespread and is involved in swimming motility. Here, we demonstrate that the structural flagellin gene from the crenarchaeaon Suffolobus soffiataricus is highly expressed in stationary-phase-grown cells and under unfavorable nutritional conditions. A mutant in a flagellar auxiliary gene, flaJ, was found to be nonmotile. Electron microscopic imaging of the flagellum indicates that the filaments are composed of right-handed helices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4305-4309
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Bacteriology
Volume	189
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00042-07
Publication status	Published - Jun-2007

Keywords

IV PILUS STRUCTURE
HALOBACTERIUM-SALINARUM
METHANOCOCCUS-VOLTAE
EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
PROTEIN SECRETION
COMPLETE GENOME
GENE
PEPTIDASE
HALOBIUM
BACTERIA

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Flagellar motility and structure in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

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