Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Native flagellar MS ring is formed by 34 subunits with 23-fold and 11-fold subsymmetries

  • Akihiro Kawamoto,
  • Tomoko Miyata,
  • Fumiaki Makino,
  • Miki Kinoshita,
  • Tohru Minamino,
  • Katsumi Imada,
  • Takayuki Kato,
  • Keiichi Namba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24507-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The bacterial flagellar MS ring is a core transmembrane complex within the flagellar basal body. Here, cryoEM analysis suggests that the MS ring is formed by 34 full-length FliF subunits, with 23- and 11-fold subsymmetries in the inner and middle M ring, respectively.