A new set of chemotaxis homologues is essential for Myxococcus xanthus social motility

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1123-1130

  Yang, Zhaomin ^a   Geng, Yongzhi ^a   Xu, Di ^b   Kaplan, Heidi B ^b   Shi, Wenyuan ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 0031767106     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01160.x     Document Type: Article

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