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NATURE
卷 466, 期 7309, 页码 996-U129出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature09300
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- US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources [RR007707]
- National Cancer Institute [Y1-CO-1020]
- National Institute of General Medical Science [Y1-GM-1104]
- Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organization
- MRC
- MRC [MC_U105170645] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105170645] Funding Source: researchfish
The flagellar motor drives the rotation of flagellar filaments at hundreds of revolutions per second(1,2), efficiently propelling bacteria through viscous media(3). The motor uses the potential energy from an electrochemical gradient of cations(4,5) across the cytoplasmic membrane to generate torque. A rapid switch from anticlockwise to clockwise rotation determines whether a bacterium runs smoothly forward or tumbles to change its trajectory(6,7). A protein called FliG forms a ring in the rotor of the flagellar motor that is involved in the generation of torque(8-13) through an interaction with the cation-channel-forming stator subunit MotA(12). FliG has been suggested to adopt distinct conformations that induce switching but these structural changes and the molecular mechanism of switching are unknown. Here we report the molecular structure of the full-length FliG protein, identify conformational changes that are involved in rotational switching and uncover the structural basis for the formation of the FliG torque ring. This allows us to propose a model of the complete ring and switching mechanism in which conformational changes in FliG reverse the electrostatic charges involved in torque generation.
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