Cloning and nucleotide sequence of a flagellin encoding genetic locus from Xenorhabdus nematophilus: Phase variation leads to differential transcription of two flagellar genes (fliCD)

Gene

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 243-253

  Givaudan, Alain ^a   Lanois, Anne ^a   Boemare, Noël ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

28 promoter; Hook associated protein 2; Insect pathogenic bacteria; Motility

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 0030458038     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00452-0     Document Type: Article

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