Plasticity in amino acid sensing of the chimeric receptor Taz

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 257-266

  Michalodimitrakis, Konstantinos M ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; RECEPTOR; SERINE; TAZ RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEUCINE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 26244455507     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04821.x     Document Type: Article

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