Different signaling roles of two conserved residues in the cytoplasmic hairpin tip of Tsr, the Escherichia coli serine chemoreceptor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8065-8074

  Mowery, Patricia ^a,b   Ostler, Jeffery B ^a,c   Parkinson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^c Nelson Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; PROTEIN TSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57349149475     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01121-08     Document Type: Article

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