CheY3 of Borrelia burgdorferi is the key response regulator essential for chemotaxis and forms a long-lived phosphorylated intermediate

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3332-3341

  Motaleb, M A ^a,b   Sultan, Syed Z ^a   Miller, Michael R ^b   Li, Chunhao ^b,c   Charon, Nyles W ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEY1 PROTEIN; CHEY2 PROTEIN; CHEY3 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 79959326874     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00362-11     Document Type: Article

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