Deborah A. Ribardo

The paper determines the in situ structure of a high-torque bacterial flagellar motor using cryogenic electron microscopy, revealing protein adaptations and universal principles of torque generation.

This study identifies a small protein, PflE, essential for flagellar assembly and virulence in Campylobacter jejuni by using transposon sequencing in a humanized tissue model.

The paper investigates the function of a large periplasmic disk in Campylobacter jejuni flagella, showing it facilitates motility and autoagglutination by bracing the motor during filament disentanglement.