Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, 3-7-2 Kajino-cho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8584, Japan.
J Bacteriol. 2010 Mar;192(6):1740-3. doi: 10.1128/JB.01219-09. Epub 2010 Jan 22.
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).
大肠杆菌化学感受器可以感知温度变化以进行趋温性。在这里,我们发现,趋气性转导蛋白 Aer(一种缺乏周质域的化学感受器同源物)介导了热响应。我们提出,化学感受器的热感应是其高度保守的细胞质域(或其不太保守的跨膜域)的普遍属性。