Elucidation of a PTS-carbohydrate chemotactic signal pathway in Escherichia coli using a time-resolved behavioral assay

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1133-1146

  Lux, Renate ^a   Munasinghe, V Ranjit N ^b   Castellano, Fred ^a   Lengeler, Joseph W ^c   Corrie, John E T ^a   Khan, Shahid ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032939921     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.4.1133     Document Type: Article

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