MgLA, a small GTPase, interacts with a tyrosine kinase to control type IV pili-mediated motility and development of Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1399-1413

  Thomasson, Bobbie ^a,c   Link, Jason ^a,d   Stassinopoulos, Angela G ^a,e   Burke, Neal ^a   Plamann, Lynda ^b   Hartzell, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d Sacred Heart Children's Hospital   (United States)

^e BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAS815; PROTEIN MASK815; PROTEIN MGLA; PROTEIN MGLA8; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SUPPRESSOR FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MGLA PROTEIN, MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; MST4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL KINETICS; CELL MOTILITY; CILIARY MOTILITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBER; GENE ISOLATION; GLIDING BACTERIUM; MASK GENE; MGLA GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STARVATION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0036886520     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03258.x     Document Type: Article

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