The bundle-forming pili of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: Transcriptional regulation by environmental signals

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-100

  Puente, Jose Luis ^a,b   Bieber, David ^a   Ramer, Sandra W ^a   Murray, William ^a,c   Schoolnik, Gary K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029928660     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02491.x     Document Type: Article

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