Chemotactic adaptation is altered by changes in the carboxy-terminal sequence conserved among the major methyl-accepting chemoreceptors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1862-1868

  Okumura, Hisashi ^a   Nishiyama, So Ichiro ^a   Sasaki, Akie ^a   Homma, Michio ^a   Kawagishi, Ikuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031945269     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.7.1862-1868.1998     Document Type: Article

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