Chemotactic-like response of Escherichia coli cells lacking the known chemotaxis machinery but containing overexpressed CheY

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1125-1137

  Barak, Rina ^a   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BENZOIC ACID; CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; COBALT; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; INDOLE; MALTOSE; NICKEL; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABINOSE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033001950     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01251.x     Document Type: Article

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