Signaling by the Escherichia coli aspartate chemoreceptor tar with a single cytoplasmic domain per dimer

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5286, 1996, Pages 423-425

  Tatsuno, Ichiro ^a   Homma, Michio ^a   Oosawa, Kenji ^a   Kawagishi, Ikuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; DIMER; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029803848     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5286.423     Document Type: Article

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