Clusters of charged residues at the C terminus of MotA and N terminus of MotB are important for function of the Escherichia coli flagellar motor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5517-5521

  Hosking, Edan R ^a,b   Manson, Michael D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MOTA; PROTEIN MOTB;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 48149085753     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00407-08     Document Type: Article

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