Citation
J. Stock et N. Levit, Signal transduction: Hair brains in bacterial chemotaxis, CURR BIOL, 10(1), 2000, pp. R11-R14
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
09609822
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Volume
10
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
R11 - R14
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(20000113)10:1<R11:STHBIB>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The conserved cytoplasmic domains of bacterial chemotaxis receptors are a f
ibrous 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.