Signal transduction: hair brains in bacterial chemotaxis.

Current biology : CB ·Vol. 10 ·No. 1 ·2000-01-13 ·Pages R11-4

Stock J, Levit M

Abstract

The conserved cytoplasmic domains of bacterial chemotaxis receptors are a fibrous arrangement of alpha-helical coiled coils that look a lot like hair. Such bundles of alpha-helical filaments mediate sensory-motor responses in all prokaryotic cells. How do they work? Very nearly perfectly is probably as good an answer as any.

MeSH Terms

Bacterial Physiological Phenomena Bacterial Proteins/chemistry,physiology Chemotaxis/physiology Dimerization Escherichia coli/physiology Escherichia coli Proteins Membrane Proteins/chemistry,physiology Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins Models, Molecular Phosphorylation Protein Conformation Protein Kinases/chemistry,physiology Protein Processing, Post-Translational Protein Structure, Tertiary Salmonella/physiology Structure-Activity Relationship

Chemicals

Bacterial Proteins CheW protein, E coli Escherichia coli Proteins Membrane Proteins Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins CheW protein, Bacteria CheB protein, Bacteria Protein Kinases

Authors & Affiliations

2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Stock J

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Levit M

Article Info

Journal

Current biology : CB

Abbr.

Curr Biol

ISSN

0960-9822

DOI

10.1016/s0960-9822(99)00248-1

Published

2000-01-13

Pages

R11-4

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

9107782

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)00248-1 View journal details

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