The Escherichia coli flagellar transcriptional activator flhD regulates cell division through induction of the acid response gene cadA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3818-3821

  Prüß, Birgit M ^a   Markovic, Dubravka ^a   Matsumura, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CADAVERINE; LYSINE; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0013492121     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3818-3821.1997     Document Type: Article

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