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@article{2004Szurmant, abstract = {The study of chemotaxis describes the cellular processes that control the movement of organisms toward favorable environments. In bacteria and archaea, motility is controlled by a two-component system involving a histidine kinase that senses the environment and a response regulator, a very common type of signal transduction in prokaryotes. Most insights into the processes involved have come from studies of Escherichia coli over the last three decades. However, in the last 10 years, with the sequencing of many prokaryotic genomes, it has become clear that E. coli represents a streamlined example of bacterial chemotaxis. While general features of excitation remain conserved among bacteria and archaea, specific features, such as adaptational processes and hydrolysis of the intracellular signal CheY-P, are quite diverse. The Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis system is considerably more complex and appears to be similar to the one that existed when the bacteria and archaea separated during evolution, so that understanding this mechanism should provide insight into the variety of mechanisms used today by the broad sweep of chemotactic bacteria and archaea. However, processes even beyond those used in E. coli and B. subtilis have been discovered in other organisms. This review emphasizes those used by B. subtilis and these other organisms but also gives an account of the mechanism in E. coli.}, address = {Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.}, author = {Szurmant, H. and Ordal, G. W.}, citeulike-article-id = {2537504}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.68.2.301-319.2004}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15187186}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15187186}, doi = {10.1128/MMBR.68.2.301-319.2004}, issn = {1092-2172}, journal = {Microbiol Mol Biol Rev}, keywords = {archaea, bacteria, chemotaxis, diversity}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {301--319}, posted-at = {2009-04-20 18:07:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Diversity in chemotaxis mechanisms among the bacteria and archaea.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.68.2.301-319.2004}, volume = {68}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - 2004Szurmant L3 - citeulike-article-id:2537504 N2 - The study of chemotaxis describes the cellular processes that control the movement of organisms toward favorable environments. In bacteria and archaea, motility is controlled by a two-component system involving a histidine kinase that senses the environment and a response regulator, a very common type of signal transduction in prokaryotes. Most insights into the processes involved have come from studies of Escherichia coli over the last three decades. However, in the last 10 years, with the sequencing of many prokaryotic genomes, it has become clear that E. coli represents a streamlined example of bacterial chemotaxis. While general features of excitation remain conserved among bacteria and archaea, specific features, such as adaptational processes and hydrolysis of the intracellular signal CheY-P, are quite diverse. The Bacillus subtilis chemotaxis system is considerably more complex and appears to be similar to the one that existed when the bacteria and archaea separated during evolution, so that understanding this mechanism should provide insight into the variety of mechanisms used today by the broad sweep of chemotactic bacteria and archaea. However, processes even beyond those used in E. coli and B. subtilis have been discovered in other organisms. This review emphasizes those used by B. subtilis and these other organisms but also gives an account of the mechanism in E. coli. IS - 2 JF - Microbiol Mol Biol Rev SN - 1092-2172 AD - Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. EP - 319 TI - Diversity in chemotaxis mechanisms among the bacteria and archaea. VL - 68 SP - 301 KW - archaea KW - bacteria KW - chemotaxis KW - diversity AU - Szurmant, H AU - Ordal, GW PY - 2004/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.68.2.301-319.2004 ER -