Bacterial Chemoreceptors: Recent Progress in Structure and Function

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-118

  Mowbray, Sherry L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Conformational Changes; Periplasmic Binding Proteins; Receptor; Signaling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TAR PROTEIN, E COLI;

CHEMISTRY; CHEMORECEPTOR; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 0033616994     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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