Chemotactic response regulator mutant CheY95IV exhibits enhanced binding to the flagellar switch and phosphorylation-dependent constitutive signalling

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1065-1075

  Schuster, Martin ^a   Abouhamad, Walid N ^a   Silversmith, Ruth E ^a   Bourret, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHEMOTAXIS; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031748927     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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