Organization of the aerotaxis receptor Aer in the membrane of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7206-7212

  Amin, Divya N ^a,b   Taylor, Barry L ^a   Johnson, Mark S ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; OXYGEN; PROTEIN AER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35048857575     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00871-07     Document Type: Article

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