Borrelia burgdorferi periplasmic flagella have both skeletal and motility functions

Bacterial shape usually is dictated by the peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall. In this paper, we show that the morphology of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is the result of a complex interaction between the cell cylinder and the internal periplasmic flagella. B. burgdorferi has a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Hauptverfasser:	Motaleb, Mohammed Abdul, Corum, Linda, Bono, James L., Elias, Abdallah F., Rosa, Patricia, Samuels, D. Scott, Charon, Nyles W.
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	National Academy of Sciences 2000
Schlagworte:	Biological Sciences
Online-Zugang:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC27121/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10995478/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.200221797
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