Deletion analysis of MotA and MotB, components of the force-generating unit in the flagellar motor of Salmonella

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1191-1202

  Muramoto, Kazumasa ^a,b   Macnab, Robert M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FLAGELLUM; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; ROTATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; FLAGELLA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PERIPLASM; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031683635     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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