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Developing a functional flagellar toolkit by studying chimeric proteins

ReferenceP18196
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Renee Sockett
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution University of Nottingham
DepartmentSchool of Molecular Medical Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 188,204
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/10/2003
End date 30/09/2006
Duration36 months

Abstract

Our previous work has revealed that limited interchange of certain subdomains of diverse MOT and FliG proteins gives insights into the mechanisms of bacterial flagellar rotation. This proposal builds on those previous data and aims to further relate motor and rotor protein domains to flagellar activities, by creating and testing the properties of chimeric proteins constructed pairwise from bacterial flagella with different rotational characteristics or with different driving ions for motility. We will also exploit a recently constructed motile, tactic, R. sphaeroides EGFP-FliM fusion to purify and analyse the protein content of the C ring switch from this flagellar motor.

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Committee Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
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Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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