Article
Repellents for Escherichia coli operate neither by changing membrane fluidity nor by being sensed by periplasmic receptors during chemotaxis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 1990
Eisenbach M, Constantinou C, Aloni H, Shinitzky M
Abstract excerpt
A long-standing question in bacterial chemotaxis is whether repellents are sensed by receptors or whether they change a general membrane property such as the membrane fluidity and this change, in turn, is sensed by the chemotaxis system. This study addressed this question. The effects of common r...
Topics
- Alcohols
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Membrane
- Chemotactic Factors
- Chemotaxis
- Escherichia coli
- Genotype
- Liposomes
- Membrane Fluidity
- Membrane Lipids
- Membrane Proteins
- Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins
- Mutation
- Viscosity