A long history of the long hook: the first paper regarding hook length control in the flagellum appeared about 40 years ago. Silverman and Simon (1972) found that a flaE (the previous name of fliK in Escherichia coli ) mutant produced extraordinarily long hooks, which they named polyhooks, and
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