Tuning a bacterial chemoreceptor with protein-membrane interactions

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 49, 2006, Pages 14655-14664

  Draheim, Roger R ^a   Bormans, Arjan F ^a,b   Lai, Run Zhi ^a   Manson, Michael D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lark Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; CELL MEMBRANES; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMPHIPATHIC AROMATIC RESIDUES; CHEMOEFFECTORS; CHEMORECEPTORS; SECOND TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX (TM2);

BACTERIOLOGY;

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; AMPHOPHILE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; ASPARTIC ACID; HOMODIMER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE BINDING; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHEMORECEPTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33845422855     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi061259i     Document Type: Article

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