The use of flash photolysis for a high-resolution temporal and spatial analysis of bacterial chemotactic behaviour: CheZ is not always necessary for chemotaxis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 295-302

  Dowd, John P ^a   Matsumura, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030853974     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4631830.x     Document Type: Article

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