Receptor density balances signal stimulation and attenuation in membrane-assembled complexes of bacterial chemotaxis signaling proteins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12289-12294

  Besschetnova, Tatiana Y ^a,b   Montefusco, David J ^a,c   Asinas, Abdalin E ^a,d   Shrout, Anthony L ^a,e   Antommattei, Frances M ^a,f   Weis, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e Protein Attachment Technologies   (United States)

^f PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological cooperativity; Liposome; Methyl accepting chemotaxis protein; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 50449104169     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802868105     Document Type: Article

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