A NarX-Tar chimera mediates repellent chemotaxis to nitrate and nitrite

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 709-719

  Ward, Scott M ^a   Delgado, Asuncion ^b   Gunsalus, Robert P ^b   Manson, Michael D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIGAND; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; PROTEIN NARX; PROTEIN TAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; DIFFUSION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITRATES; NITRITES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036091152     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02902.x     Document Type: Article

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