Determinants of chemoreceptor cluster formation in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 407-417

  Kentner, David ^a   Thiem, Sebastian ^a   Hildenbeutel, Markus ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33748486238     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05250.x     Document Type: Article

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