Functional similarities among two-component sensors and methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins suggest a role for linker region amphipathic helices in transmembrane signal transduction

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1093-1102

  Williams, Stanly B ^a   Stewart, Valley ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032826834     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01562.x     Document Type: Article

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