Functional and structural effects of seven-residue deletions on the coiled-coil cytoplasmic domain of a chemoreceptor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-239

  Massazza, Diego A ^a   Izzo, Silvina A ^a   Gasperotti, A Florencia ^a   Herrera Seitz, M Karina ^a   Studdert, Claudia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN TAR; PROTEIN TSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84155171094     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07928.x     Document Type: Article

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