A Molecular Mechanism of Bacterial Flagellar Motor Switching

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-84

  Dyer, Collin M ^a   Vartanian, Armand S ^a   Zhou, Hongjun ^a   Dahlquist, Frederick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial flagellar motor; CheY; FliG; FliM; NMR

Indexed keywords

CHEY PROTEIN; FLIG PROTEIN; FLIM PROTEIN; MOTA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 63649154351     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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