Tactic responses to oxygen in the phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides WS8N

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5590-5598

  Romagnoli, Simona ^a   Packer, Helen L ^a   Armitage, Judith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OXYGEN; PROTEIN KINASES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0036786855     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.20.5590-5598.2002     Document Type: Article

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