Thus, while R179 itself does not harbor the flagellin protein, its ability to suppress immune responses activated by flagellin provides it with a competitive advantage in a community, i.e ...

The effects Pulendran’s team found appeared to be mediated by Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), a molecule that mediates an immune reaction to flagellin, the protein which forms filamentous bacterial ...

Crystallization of flagellar proteins: To determine the molecular structures of flagellin to identify the mechanism of the mechanical switch of sub-Å precision and of many other flagellar proteins to ...

The TLR5 gene, which encodes the receptor for bacterial flagellin, contains a common stop-codon polymorphism that blocks signaling downstream of this receptor. In this paper, Hawn et al.

One of the most common features is a short pattern in bacterial flagellin, the protein that makes up the hair-like appendage that allows bacteria to move. Plant immune responses, which involve a ...