The two-component signaling pathway of bacterial chemotaxis: A molecular view of signal transduction by receptors, kinases, and adaptation enzymes

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 1997, Pages 457-512

  Falke, Joseph J ^a   Bass, Randal B ^a   Butler, Scott L ^a   Chervitz, Stephen A ^a   Danielson, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate kinase; Histidine kinase; Kinase regulation; Protein methylation; Transmembrane signaling

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE KINASE; DOCKING PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BINDING SITE; CHEMOTAXIS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031455398     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.13.1.457     Document Type: Review

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