Specificity of localization and phosphotransfer in the CheA proteins of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 318-330

  Scott, Kathryn A ^a,b   Porter, Steven L ^a,b,c   Bagg, Eleanor A L ^a,b   Hamer, Rebecca ^a   Hill, Jennifer L ^b   Wilkinson, David A ^b   Armitage, Judith P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA SHUFFLING; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA SHUFFLING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951161917     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07095.x     Document Type: Article

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