Methylation segments are not required for chemotactic signalling by cytoplasmic fragments of Tsr, the methyl-accepting serine chemoreceptor of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 737-746

  Ames, Peter ^a   Yu, Yong A ^a,b   Parkinson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030047967     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.408930.x     Document Type: Article

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