Thermosensing function of the Escherichia coli redox sensor Aer.

ABSTRACT: Escherichia coli chemoreceptors can sense changes in temperature for thermotaxis. Here we found that the aerotaxis transducer Aer, a homolog of chemoreceptors lacking a periplasmic domain, mediates thermoresponses. We propose that thermosensing by the chemoreceptors is a general attribute of their highly conserved cytoplasmic domain (or their less conserved transmembrane domain).

SUBMITTER: Nishiyama S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2832510 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature