Modeling the chemotactic response of Escherichia coli to time-varying stimuli

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

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 14855-14860

  Tu, Yuhai ^a   Shimizu, Thomas S ^b   Berg, Howard C ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation kinetics; Bacterial chemotaxis; Monod Wyman Changeux model; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SPECTROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54449097071     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807569105     Document Type: Article

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