Localization of components of the chemotaxis machinery of Escherichia coli using fluorescent protein fusions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 740-751

  Sourjik, Victor ^a   Berg, Howard C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033865904     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02044.x     Document Type: Article

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