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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao7054
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [JP15H04360, JP15K14498, JP15H05593, JP15H03540, JP15H02386, JP24227005, JP25000013, JP26293097]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology KAKENHI [JP26115720, JP15H01335, JP26119003, JP24117004, JP15H01640]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency [JPMJPR13L4, JPMJCR13M1]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H06121, 15H05593, 26119003, 25000013] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The bacterial flagellum is a supramolecular motility machine. Flagellar assembly begins with the basal body, followed by the hook and finally the filament. A carboxyl-terminal cytoplasmic domain of FlhA (FlhA(C)) forms a nonameric ring structure in the flagellar type III protein export apparatus and coordinates flagellar protein export with assembly. However, the mechanism of this process remains unknown. We report that a flexible linker of FlhAC (FlhA(L)) is required not only for FlhA(C) ring formation but also for substrate specificity switching of the protein export apparatus from the hook protein to the filament protein upon completion of the hook structure. FlhA(L) was required for cooperative ring formation of FlhA(C). Alanine substitutions of residues involved in FlhA(C) ring formation interferedwith the substrate specificity switching, thereby inhibiting filament assembly at the hook tip. These observations lead us to propose a mechanistic model for export switching involving structural remodeling of FlhA(C).
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