The structure of bacterial flagella have been described by Simon (1978), Doestsch and Sjoblad (1980) and Ferris and Beveridge (1985). A flagellum consists of three basic parts, the basal body, hook and filament (Fig. 4.3). (a) Basal body: M. L. De Pamphilis and J. Alder (1971) isolated the basal body of a flagellum of E. […]