Identification of a fourth cheY gene in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and interspecies interaction within the bacterial chemotaxis signal transduction pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-112

  Shah, Deepan S H ^a   Porter, Steven L ^a   Harris, Daniel C ^a   Wadhams, George H ^a   Hamblin, Paul A ^a,b   Armitage, Judith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033977153     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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