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The deduced function of CheF in chemotaxis appears to be interacting with methylesterase, the enzyme responsible for removal of methyl groups from methyl-accepting chemotactic proteins.","The transcription unit which the cheF is located within was characterized. This transcription unit maps near pyrD and spcB, and at least ten complementation groups were found to be cotranscribed in this transcription unit. The regulation of this transcription unit seems to be under the control of SigA, the primary $\\sigma$ factor in B. subtilis at the transcriptional level. Inspection of the promoter DNA sequence of this transcription unit revealed a potential consensus sequence for SigA promoters. Tn917-derived chemotaxis mutants whose mutations map near hisA and metC were analyzed. The expression of genes from these two loci requires the presence of an alternate $\\sigma$ factor, SigD.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:52:43Z (GMT). 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