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B. subtilis CheY also has an effect on the methylation of the membrane bound methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins, possibly due to interaction with an unidentified methylated regulator at the switch or as a feedback mechanism for adaptation to the chemotactic stimuli. Two other genes, fliM and fliY, encode proteins that are components of the switch complex in B. subtilis that controls the direction of rotation of the flagella. The other three genes encode proteins that are involved in synthesis of the flagella. FliP and FliQ are flagellar biosynthetic proteins. FliZ is thought to be a structural component that anchors the flagella to the membrane.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:14:25Z (GMT). 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