Flagellar flhA, flhB and flhE genes, organized in an operon, cluster upstream from the inv locus in Yersinia enterocolitica

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3461-3471

  Fauconnier, Alan ^a   Allaoui, Abdelmounaaïm ^b,d   Campos, Andrés ^c,e   Van Elsen, Ary ^a   Cornells, Guy R ^b   Bollen, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Flagellar genes; Invasin; LcrD FlbF; Motility; Yersinia enterocolitica

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INVASIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0030722929     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-11-3461     Document Type: Article

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