Deciphering chemotaxis pathways using cross species comparisons

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hamer, Rebecca ^a   Chen, Pao Yang ^c   Armitage, Judith P ^a,b   Reinert, Gesine ^a   Deane, Charlotte M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMOTAXIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649121613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-3     Document Type: Article

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