Cloning of the fliI gene from Rhodobacter sphaeroides WS8 by analysis of a transposon mutant with impaired motility

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-116

  Goodfellow, Ian Gordon ^a   Pollitt, Charles Edward ^a   Sockett, Renee Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flagellar export; FliI protein; Lowered motility; Rhodobacter; TnphoA mutant

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030586791     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00252-2     Document Type: Article

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