Single domain response regulators: molecular switches with emerging roles in cell organization and dynamics

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Jenal, Urs ^a   Galperin, Michael Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEY PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 64149097084     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.01.010     Document Type: Review

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