Engineering Hybrid Chemotaxis Receptors in Bacteria

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 989-1001

  Bi, Shuangyu ^a   Pollard, Abiola M ^a   Yang, Yiling ^a   Jin, Fan ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

chemotaxis; extracellular sensory domain; histidine kinase; hybrid chemoreceptors; ligand; methyl accepting chemotaxis protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RECEPTOR; TAR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIGAND;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOENGINEERING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIGANDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84987918369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00053     Document Type: Article

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