Myoglobin-like aerotaxis transducers in Archaea and Bacteria

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 540-544

  Hou, Shaobin ^a   Larsen, Randy W ^a   Boudko, Dmitri ^a   Riley, Charles W ^a   Karatan, Ece ^b   Zimmer, Mike ^b   Ordal, George W ^b   Alam, Maqsudul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HEMEPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM;

EID: 0034598826     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000570     Document Type: Article

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