Chemotactic responses of Escherichia coli to small jumps of photoreleased L-aspartate

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1706-1719

  Jasuja, Ravi ^a   Keyoung, Jinsoo ^a   Reid, Gordon P ^b   Trentham, David R ^b   Khan, Shahid ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; ESTER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; PYRAN DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033014470     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77329-7     Document Type: Article

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