A molecular mechanism of direction switching in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 17171-17176

  Paul, Koushik ^a   Brunstetter, Duncan ^a   Titen, Sienna ^a   Blair, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular machines; Motility; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CHEY PROTEIN; FLIG PROTEIN; FLIM PROTEIN; FLIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; ROTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80054722813     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110111108     Document Type: Article

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