Abstract
FliG, FliM, and FliN are three proteins of Salmonella typhimurium that affect the rotation and switching of direction of the flagellar motor. An analysis of mutant alleles of FliM has been described recently (H. Sockett, S. Yamaguchi, M. Kihara, V. M. Irikura, and R. M. Macnab, J. Bacteriol. 174:793-806, 1992). We have now analyzed a large number of mutations in the fliG and fliN genes that are responsible for four different types of defects: failure to assembly flagella (nonflagellate phenotype), failure to rotate flagella (paralyzed phenotype), and failure to display normal chemotaxis as a result of an abnormally high bias to clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) rotation (CW-bias and CCW-bias phenotypes, respectively). The null phenotype for fliG, caused by nonsense or frameshift mutations, was nonflagellate. However, a considerable part of the FliG amino acid sequence was not needed for flagellation, with several substantial in-frame deletions preventing motor rotation but not flagellar assembly. Missense mutations in fliG causing paralysis or abnormal switching occurred at a number of positions, almost all within the middle one-third of the gene. CW-bias and CCW-bias mutations tended to segregate into separate subclusters. The null phenotype of fliN is uncertain, since frameshift and nonsense mutations gave in some cases the nonflagellate phenotype and in other cases the paralyzed phenotype; in none of these cases was the phenotype a consequence of polar effects on downstream flagellar genes. Few positions in FliN were found to affect switching: only one gave rise to the CW mutant bias and only four gave rise to the CCW mutant bias. The different properties of the FliM, FliG, and FliN proteins with respect to the processes of assembly, rotation, and switching are discussed.
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