The specificity of fumarate as a switching factor of the bacterial flagellar motor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 139-144

  Barak, Rina ^a   Giebel, Igal ^a   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUMARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030047188     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.365889.x     Document Type: Article

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