Signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis

BioEssays

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-22

  Baker, Melinda D ^a   Wolanin, Peter M ^a   Stock, Jeffry B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CHEW PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN CHEY; PROTEIN CHEZ; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN SH3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CELL MOTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIACEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33645215770     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20343     Document Type: Review

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