Identification of a gene, pilV, required for type 4 fimbrial biogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, whose product possesses a pre‐pilin‐like leader sequence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 485-496

  Alm, Richard A ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, STRUCTURAL, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029063497     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02413.x     Document Type: Article

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