Cellular localization of predicted transmembrane and soluble chemoreceptors in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5724-5733

  Meier, Veronika M ^a   Scharf, Birgit E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ICPA RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MCPT RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MCPX RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MCPY RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MCPZ RECEPTOR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MONOMER; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSION GENE; GENE DELETION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIONT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 69949105381     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01286-08     Document Type: Article

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