Signal transduction via the histidyl-aspartyl phosphorelay

Genes to Cells

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 167-184

  Egger, Linda A ^a,b   Park, Heiyoung ^a,c   Inouye, Masayori ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; ENVZ PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

METABOLISM; OSMOSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HISTIDINE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OSMOSIS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031089715     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1997.d01-311.x     Document Type: Review

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