Regulation of phosphatase activity in bacterial chemotaxis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1191-1199

  Blat, Yuval ^a,c   Gillespie, Blake ^b   Bren, Anat ^a   Dahlquist, Frederick W ^b   Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial chemotaxis; CheY; CheZ; Phosphatase; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FLUOROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 18144446008     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2224     Document Type: Article

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