A phenylalanine rotameric switch for signal-state control in bacterial chemoreceptors

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ortega, Davi R ^a   Yang, Chen ^b   Ames, Peter ^b   Baudry, Jerome ^c,d   Parkinson, John S ^b   Zhulin, Igor B ^a,c,d  

^a Oak Ridge National Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; HOMODIMER; PHENYLALANINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGAND; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN; SIGNALING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84890727237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3881     Document Type: Article

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