Flagellar genes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides are homologous to genes of the fliF operon of Salmonella typhimurium and to the type-III secretion system

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-72

  Ballado, Teresa ^a   Campos, Andrés ^a   Camarena, Laura ^a   Dreyfus, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Cloning; Export of virulence factors; Photosynthetic bacterium; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLAGELLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029877310     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00855-1     Document Type: Article

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