Two CheW coupling proteins are essential in a chemosensory pathway of Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 782-794

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Liu, Jun ^c   Tu, Youbin ^d   Xu, Hongbin ^a   Charon, Nyles W ^e   Li, Chunhao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; PROTEIN CHEA1; PROTEIN CHEA2; PROTEIN CHEW1; PROTEIN CHEW2; PROTEIN CHEW3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS; CHEW1 GENE; CHEW2 GENE; CHEW3 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864794741     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08139.x     Document Type: Article

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