Generation of Campylobacter fetus S-layer protein diversity utilizes a single promoter on an invertible DNA segment

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1241-1253

  Dworkin, Joel ^a   Blaser, Martin J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029897998     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02469.x     Document Type: Article

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