Hysteretic and graded responses in bacterial two-component signal transduction

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1196-1215

  Igoshin, Oleg A ^a   Alves, Rui ^b   Savageau, Michael A ^c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN ENVZ; PROTEIN KINASE; SENSOR KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 43449134999     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06221.x     Document Type: Article

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