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| Igor B ZhulinSummaryAffiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology Country: USA Publications
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The superfamily of chemotaxis transducers: from physiology to genomics and backI B Zhulin
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332 0230, USA
Adv Microb Physiol 45:157-98. 2001..This indicates that basic principles of sensory transduction are conserved throughout the phylogenetic tree and that the chemotaxis transducer superfamily is a valuable source of novel sensory elements yet to be discovered...
Digging with experimental pick and computational shovel: a new addition to the histidine kinase superfamilyIgor B Zhulin
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0230, USA
J Bacteriol 186:267-9. 2004- Common extracellular sensory domains in transmembrane receptors for diverse signal transduction pathways in bacteria and archaeaIgor B Zhulin
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 0230, USA
J Bacteriol 185:285-94. 2003..The variety of signaling pathways using the CHASE-type domains indicates that these domains sense some critically important extracellular signals... - Comparative genomic and protein sequence analyses of a complex system controlling bacterial chemotaxisKristin Wuichet
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Methods Enzymol 422:1-31. 2007.... - Evolutionary genomics reveals conserved structural determinants of signaling and adaptation in microbial chemoreceptorsRoger P Alexander
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 0230, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:2885-90. 2007.... - Molecular evolution of sensory domains in cyanobacterial chemoreceptorsKristin Wuichet
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
Trends Microbiol 11:200-3. 2003..This fact could explain a remarkable diversity of the sensing repertoire of chemotaxis receptors in microorganisms... - Four-helix bundle: a ubiquitous sensory module in prokaryotic signal transductionLuke E Ulrich
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 0230 USA
Bioinformatics 21:iii45-8. 2005.... - One-component systems dominate signal transduction in prokaryotesLuke E Ulrich
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Trends Microbiol 13:52-6. 2005..One-component systems are evolutionarily older, more widely distributed among bacteria and archaea, and display a greater diversity of domains than two-component systems... - The NIT domain: a predicted nitrate-responsive module in bacterial sensory receptorsChengyi J Shu
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
Trends Biochem Sci 28:121-4. 2003.... - Ecological role of energy taxis in microorganismsGladys Alexandre
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
FEMS Microbiol Rev 28:113-26. 2004..Such knowledge is critical to a better understanding of the ecological role of energy taxis... - Different evolutionary constraints on chemotaxis proteins CheW and CheY revealed by heterologous expression studies and protein sequence analysisGladys Alexandre
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332 0230, USA
J Bacteriol 185:544-52. 2003..Our findings suggest that proteins from the same cellular pathway encoded by genes from the same operon have different evolutionary constraints on their structures that reflect differences in their functions... - ANTAR: an RNA-binding domain in transcription antitermination regulatory proteinsChengyi J Shu
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
Trends Biochem Sci 27:3-5. 2002..Transcription antitermination appears to be a common mechanism for controlling gene expression by this family of regulators... - CHASE: an extracellular sensing domain common to transmembrane receptors from prokaryotes, lower eukaryotes and plantsC Mougel
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
Trends Biochem Sci 26:582-4. 2001..The CHASE domain is predicted to sense stimuli that are specific for the developmental program of an organism... - Aer and Tsr guide Escherichia coli in spatial gradients of oxidizable substratesSuzanne E Greer-Phillips
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
Microbiology 149:2661-7. 2003..Taken together, the results demonstrate that Aer and Tsr mediate responses to a broad range of chemicals and their attractant repertoires overlap with those of specialized chemoreceptors, namely Trg (ribose, galactose) and Tar (maltose)... - Bacterial signaling and motility: sure betsRobert Belas
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
J Bacteriol 190:1849-56. 2008 - Dual recognition of the bacterial chemoreceptor by chemotaxis-specific domains of the CheR methyltransferaseDaisuke Shiomi
Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa ku, Japan
J Biol Chem 277:42325-33. 2002..Thus, the two chemotaxis-specific modules of CheR interact with distinct regions of the chemoreceptor for targeting to the receptor cluster and for recognition of the substrate sites, respectively... - Genome sequence of Thermofilum pendens reveals an exceptional loss of biosynthetic pathways without genome reductionIain Anderson
Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA
J Bacteriol 190:2957-65. 2008.... - MiST: a microbial signal transduction databaseLuke E Ulrich
Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, The University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 6173, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 35:D386-90. 2007..Newly available, complete genomes are loaded into the database each month. MiST is the only comprehensive and up-to-date electronic catalog of the signaling machinery in microbial genomes... - A major chemotaxis gene cluster in Azospirillum brasilense and relationships between chemotaxis operons in alpha-proteobacteriaDieter Hauwaerts
Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium
FEMS Microbiol Lett 208:61-7. 2002..brasilense operon to one of them. Interestingly, operons that are shown to be major regulators of behavior in several alpha-proteobacterial species are not orthologous... - Complete genome sequence of the complex carbohydrate-degrading marine bacterium, Saccharophagus degradans strain 2-40 TRonald M Weiner
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
PLoS Genet 4:e1000087. 2008..This is the first sequenced genome of a marine bacterium that can degrade plant cell walls, an important component of the carbon cycle that is not well-characterized in the marine environment...