Molecular evolution of sensory domains in cyanobacterial chemoreceptors

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 200-203

  Wuichet, Kristin ^a   Zhulin, Igor B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC PEPTIDE; DOCKING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; OPERON; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANABAENA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NOSTOC; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037674827     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00073-8     Document Type: Review

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