The Remarkable Dual-Level Diversity of Prokaryotic Flagellins

Bacterial and archaeal flagellins are remarkable in having a shared region with variation in housekeeping proteins and a region with extreme diversity, perhaps greater than for any other protein. Analysis of the 113,285 available full-gene sequences of flagellin genes from published bacterial and ar...

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Main Authors: Dalong Hu, Peter R. Reeves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-02-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00705-19