Biphasic control logic of HAMP domain signalling in the Escherichia coli serine chemoreceptor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 596-611

  Zhou, Qin ^a   Ames, Peter ^a   Parkinson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEA KINASE; CHEB PROTEIN; CHER PROTEIN; CHEW PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN AS1; PROTEIN AS2; PROTEIN HAMP; PROTEIN TSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOVEMENT; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79954991359     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07577.x     Document Type: Article

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