Signaling Mechanisms of HAMP domains in chemoreceptors and sensor kinases

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages 101-122

  Parkinson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

conformational coupling; dynamic bundle; phase clash; piston model; transmembrane signaling

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA KINASE; METHYL ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN AER; PROTEIN ENVZ; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN HTR2; PROTEIN NARX; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77957949467     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134215     Document Type: Review

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