A census of membrane-bound and intracellular signal transduction proteins in bacteria: Bacterial IQ, extroverts and introverts

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Galperin, Michael Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA ANALYSIS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EID: 23944523895     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-5-35     Document Type: Article

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