Assembly, stability and regulation of flagellar motor in Escherichia coli [Elektronische Ressource] / presented by Hui Li

Dissertation submitted to the Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics of the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany for the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences presented by MSc. Hui LI born in: Hebei, China Oral-examination: November 2010 Assembly, stability and regulation of flagellar motor in Escherichia coli First referee: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik Second referee: PD Dr. Matthias P. Mayer To my parents Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik for his supervision, encouragement and support throughout the entire course of my PhD study. Also, I am very grateful to PD Dr. Matthias Mayer for his kind guidance, helpful discussion and valuable advice. This work would not have been done without the financial support by the “Heinz Goetze Memorial Fellowship Program” of the Athenaeum Foundation. Many thanks go to Dr. Dietlind Wünsche for her all-round help and assistance when I was just starting in Heidelberg. Part of this work has been done by collaborating with Prof. Dr. Urs Jenal and Dr. Alex Boehm in Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland. I wish to thank them for the pleasant collaboration. I am grateful as well to all the former and present colleagues in the lab for giving me indispensible help, creating a wonderful and fun working environment.