Chemoreceptors and flagellar motors are subterminally located in close proximity at the two cell poles in spirochetes |
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| Authors: | Xu Hongbin Raddi Gianmarco Liu Jun Charon Nyles W Li Chunhao |
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| Affiliation: | 1Department of Oral Biology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 14214;2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas 77030;3Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Cell Biology, Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-9177 |
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| Abstract: | Green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions, immunofluorescence microscopy, and cryo-electron tomography revealed that the chemoreceptors of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi form long, thin arrays near both cell poles. These arrays are in close proximity to the flagellar motors. This information provides a basis for further understanding motility, chemotaxis, and protein localization in spirochetes. |
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