Bacterial chemoreceptors: providing enhanced features to two-component signaling

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-132

  Hazelbauer, Gerald L ^a   Lai, Wing Cheung ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMODIMER; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SWITCHING; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77949917744     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.12.014     Document Type: Review

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