Making sense of it all: Bacterial chemotaxis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1024-1037

  Wadhams, George H ^a   Armitage, Judith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA KINASE; CHEY PROTEIN; CHEZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 10044252242     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1524     Document Type: Review

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