Tohru Minamino

The paper characterizes pseudaminic acid modifications on the lateral flagellar filament of Vibrio alginolyticus and shows Maf is required for filament formation.

This study shows thermal fluctuations help bacterial flagellar motors rotate quickly at low load by compensating for limited power stroke reach.

The paper determines the structure of an active FlhA ring and shows how it couples substrate specificity to export engine activation through linker-mediated docking.

This study identifies a conserved residue in FlhA that couples export gate activation to substrate specificity switching in bacterial flagellar assembly.

The paper shows that removal of inhibitory components Fluke and FlhBCCD by FliK drives the flagellar T3S specificity switch from early to late secretion.

The paper presents a cryoEM structure of the FliPQR complex in closed form, revealing how FliE opens the periplasmic gate for flagellar rod assembly.

This paper reports cryoEM structures of the flagellar MS-ring and identifies how FliF subunits adopt different conformations to generate three rotational symmetries.

The paper reports the near-atomic structure of the S-ring from Vibrio alginolyticus flagellar motor using cryo-EM, revealing structural differences compared to Salmonella.

The paper reports the structure of the LP ring of the bacterial flagellar motor using electron cryomicroscopy, revealing its 26-fold symmetry and intersubunit interactions.