Thermosensing properties of mutant aspartate chemoreceptors with methyl- accepting sites replaced singly or multiply by alanine

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 6573-6580

  Nishiyama, So Ichiro ^a   Nara, Toshifumi ^a,b   Homma, Michio ^a   Imae, Yasuo ^a   Kawagishi, Ikuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMORECEPTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030696872     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.21.6573-6580.1997     Document Type: Article

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