An archaeal aerotaxis transducer combines subunit I core structures of eukaryotic cytochrome c oxidase and eubacterial methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1642-1646

  Brooun, Alexei ^a   Bell, James ^a   Freitas, Tracey ^a   Larsen, Randy W ^a   Alam, Maqsudul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; HEME; METHYL GROUP; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMOTAXIS; DEMETHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031944976     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.7.1642-1646.1998     Document Type: Article

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