Antigenic Difference Between Polar Monotrichous and Peritrichous Flagella of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus has peritrichous flagella in addition to polar monotrichous flagella (1, 3, 4, 16, 17; E. Yabuuchi, M. Arita, Y. Takeda, and T. Miwatani, Jap. J. Microbiol., in press), and some differences in the characteristics of these two types of flagella have been reported. Polar monotrichous flagella are a normal type, whereas peritrichous flagella are an atypical, curly type (16; Yabuuchi et al., Jap. J. Microbiol., in press). Moreover, the former have a sheath-like structure, whereas the latter do not (1, 11, 16; Yabuuchi et al., Jap. J. Microbiol., in press). Peritrichous flagella were easily removed from the cells mechanically (Yabuuchi et al., Jap. J. Microbiol., in press), but polar monotrichous flagella can only be removed by rigorous agitation of the cells (11). This paper reports antigenic differences between these two types of flagella.
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