Oxygen and Redox Sensing by Two-Component Systems That Regulate Behavioral Responses: Behavioral Assays and Structural Studies of Aer Using In Vivo Disulfide Cross-Linking

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 422, Issue , 2007, Pages 190-232

  Taylor, Barry L ^a   Watts, Kylie J ^a   Johnson, Mark S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 ACETAMIDO 4 DISULFONIC ACID; 5 IODOACETAMIDOFLUORESCEIN; AGAR; CUPRIC ION; CYSTEINE; DISODIUM SALT; DISULFIDE; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; MALEIMIDE DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; METHOXY POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL MALEIMIDE; SODIUM DERIVATIVE; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AERATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEHAVIOR; CAPILLARY; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CROSS LINKING; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS FLOW; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SENSING; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34250804328     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)22010-X     Document Type: Chapter

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