Metabolism is required for chemotaxis to sugars in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 229-239

  Jeziore Sassoon, Yehudit ^a,b   Hamblin, Paul A ^a   Bootle Wilbraham, Carolyn A ^a   Poole, Philip S ^a,c   Armitage, Judith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Carbohydrate transport; Chemotaxis; Phosphotransferase system; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHEMOATTRACTANT; CHEMOTAXIS AFFECTING AGENT; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MANNITOL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

ENTERIC BACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0031983643     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-1-229     Document Type: Article

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