Responding to chemical gradients: Bacterial chemotaxis

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 262-268

  Sourjik, Victor ^a   Wingreen, Ned S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOTAXIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVIEW; SENSOR;

CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861836686     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2011.11.008     Document Type: Review

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