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Conformational suppression of inter-receptor signaling defects.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Jun 2006
Ames Peter, Parkinson John S
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Motile bacteria follow gradients of attractant and repellent chemicals with high sensitivity. Their chemoreceptors are physically clustered, which may enable them to function as a cooperative array. Although native chemoreceptor molecules are typically transmembrane homodimers, they appear to associate through their cytoplasmic tips to form trimers of dimers, which may be an important architectural element in the...
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