Chemotaxis kinase CheA is activated by three neighbouring chemoreceptor dimers as effectively as by receptor clusters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 677-685

  Li, Mingshan ^a   Khursigara, Cezar M ^b   Subramaniam, Sriram ^b   Hazelbauer, Gerald L ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; NANODISC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHEMOTAXIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78751698851     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07478.x     Document Type: Article

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