Architecture and signal transduction mechanism of the bacterial chemosensory array: Progress, controversies, and challenges

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-94

  Falke, Joseph J ^a   Piasta, Kene N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

BACTERIUM; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMOSENSORY ARRAY; CHEMOTAXIS ASSAY; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMATOGA MARITIMA; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84908505379     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.10.001     Document Type: Review

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