THE COMPARISON OF NORMAL AND CURLY FLAGELLA IN SALMONELLA ABORTUS-EQUI BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEPARATION OF PEPTIDES

Abstract

A comparative analysis of peptide patterns from flagellin of normal and curly mutant flagella was made on SL23 and SJ30 of S. abortus-equi, with the aid of paper ionophoresis and chromatography. The 2 flagellins were different in only 1 of 35 peptides. The peptides differing between 2 flagellins had the following characters they did not contain arginine, histidine and tyrosine; the charge difference was not observed between them; and the Rf value of the peptide in curly flagellin was ca. 3.5 times higher than that in normal flagellin.