Chemosensory and photosensory perception in purple photosynthetic bacteria utilize common signal transduction components

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 5720-5727

  Jiang, Ze Yu ^a   Gest, Howard ^a   Bauer, Carl E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHOTOTAXIS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOSPIRILLUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM CENTENUM;

EID: 0030930247     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.18.5720-5727.1997     Document Type: Article

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