@article{87856, keywords = {Animals, chemotaxis, Bacterial Proteins, signal transduction, Escherichia coli, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, Membrane Proteins, Escherichia coli Proteins, Cell Movement, Histidine Kinase, Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins}, author = {Jeffry Stock and Mikhail Levit and Peter Wolanin}, title = {Information processing in bacterial chemotaxis.}, abstract = { Motile bacteria respond to attractants and repellents in their environment by changing their movement. Stock et al. describe the similarities of the bacterial chemotaxis signaling system to eukaryotic signaling cascades. Also included is a discussion of how the ordered signaling complex of the receptor, the kinase CheA, and the kinase regulator CheW can be thought of as a primitive "probrain" to allow the integration of signals to produce the optimal cellular response. }, year = {2002}, journal = {Sci STKE}, volume = {2002}, pages = {pe25}, month = {05/2002}, issn = {1525-8882}, doi = {10.1126/stke.2002.132.pe25}, language = {eng}, }