The Bacterial Flagellum

Preface¿ Table of Contents¿ Contributors¿ Part I Flagellar Type III Protein Export, Assembly and Gene Regulation in Salmonella enterica1.      Fuel of the Bacterial Flagellar Type III Protein Export Apparatus Tohru Minamino, Miki Kinoshita and Keiichi Namba2.      Interactions of Flagellar Structural Subunits with the Membrane Export Components Machinery Lewis D.B. Evans, Paul M. Bergen, Owain J. Bryant and Gillian M. Fraser3.      Fluorescent Microscopy Techniques to Study Hook Length Control and Flagella Formation Marc Erhardt4.      Coupling of Flagellar Gene Expression with Assembly in Salmonella enterica Fabienne F.V. Chevance and Kelly T Hughes 5.      Dynamic Measures of Flagellar Gene Expression Santosh Koirala and Christopher V. RaoPart II Structure of the Bacterial Flagellum6.      Purification and Characterization of the Bacterial Flagellar Basal Body from Salmonella enterica Shin-Ichi Aizawa7.      Design and Preparation of the Fragment Proteins of the Flagellar Components Suitable for X-Ray Crystal Structure Analysis Katsumi Imada8.      Structural Analysis of the Flagellar Component Proteins in Solution by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Lawrence K. Lee9.      Structural Study of the Bacterial Flagellar Basal Body by Electron Cryomicroscopy and Image Analysis Akihoro Kawamoto and Keiichi Namba10.  Structure of the MotA/B Proton Channel Akio Kitao and Yasutaka Nishihara11.  Mechanism of Stator Assembly and Incorporation into the Flagellar Motor Seiji KojimaPart III Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor12.  Rotation Measurements of Tethered Cells Yuichi Inoue13.  Tracking the Movement of a Single Prokaryotic Cell in Extreme Environmental Conditions Masayoshi Nishiyama and Yoshiyuki Arai14.  Measurements of