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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 146, Issue 5, Pages 643-650Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp109
Keywords
bacterial flagella; GTP-binding motif; polar flagellum
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- Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Corporation
- Hayashi Memorial Foundation for Female Natural Scientists
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Precise regulation of the number and placement of flagella is critical for the mono-flagellated bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus to swim efficiently. We previously proposed a model in which the putative GTPase FlhF determines the polar location and generation of the flagellum, the putative ATPase FlhG interacts with FlhF to prevent FlhF from localizing to the pole, and thus FlhG negatively regulates the flagellar number in V. alginolyticus cells. To investigate the role of the GTP-binding motif of FlhF, we generated a series of alanine-replacement mutations at the positions that are highly conserved among homologous proteins. The results indicate that there is a correlation between the polar localization and the ability to produce flagella in the mutants. We investigated whether the mutations in the GTP-binding motif affected the ability to interact with FlhG. In contrast to our prediction, no significant difference was detected in the interaction with FlhG between the wild-type and mutant FlhFs. We showed that the GTP-binding motif of FlhF is important for polar localization of the flagellum but not for the interaction with FlhG.
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