Stable sub-complexes observed in situ suggest a modular assembly pathway of the bacterial flagellar motor
Mohammed Kaplan, Poorna Subramanian, Debnath Ghosal, Catherine M. Oikonomou, Sahand Pirbadian, Ruth Starwalt-Lee, Jeffrey A. Gralnick, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, Grant J. Jensen
The paper observes stable sub-complexes in bacterial flagellar motors using cryo-tomography, suggesting a modular assembly pathway involving independent outer- and inner-membrane sub-complexes.
bioRxiv · Jul 14, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology