Molecular architecture of chemoreceptor arrays revealed by cryoelectron tomography of Escherichia coli minicells

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

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a   Hu, Bo ^a   Morado, Dustin R ^a   Jani, Sneha ^b   Manson, Michael D ^b   Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial chemotaxis; Protein protein interactions; Receptor clustering; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; DIMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861889025     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200781109     Document Type: Article

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