Transmembrane organization of the Bacillus subtilis chemoreceptor McpB deduced by cysteine disulfide crosslinking

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 941-949

  Bunn, Michael W ^a   Ordal, George W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chemoreceptor; Chemotaxis; Crosslinking; Helix packing; Structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MONOMER; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0042667015     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00834-9     Document Type: Article

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