By Staying Together, Two Genes Keep the Motor Running
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1Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Abstract:
In this issue of Structure, Lynch et al. (2017) reveal that the interaction between two key proteins in the bacterial flagellar motor results in a shared structural domain. This unusual arrangement keeps the corresponding genes together through the course of evolution.
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