Lateral density of receptor arrays in the membrane plane influences sensitivity of the E. coli chemotaxis response

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1719-1729

  Khursigara, Cezar M ^a,e   Lan, Ganhui ^b   Neumann, Silke ^c   Wu, Xiongwu ^d   Ravindran, Suchie ^a   Borgnia, Mario J ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^c   Milne, Jacqueline ^a   Tu, Yuhai ^b   Subramaniam, Sriram ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

chemotaxis; cryo electron tomography; receptors; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; LIGAND; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMOTAXIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79955597281     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.77     Document Type: Article

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