A Hitchhiker's guide through advances and conceptual changes in chemotaxis

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 574-580

  Eisenbach, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; CHEA KINASE; CHEB KINASE; CHEY KINASE; CHEZ KINASE; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN KINASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 35848950755     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21238     Document Type: Short Survey

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