Genetic identification of chemotactic transducers for amino acids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3223-3229

  Taguchi, Kazunori ^a   Fukutomi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kuroda, Akio ^a   Kato, Junichi ^a   Ohtake, Hisao ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Chemotaxis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Transducer

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; ARGININE; CADAVERINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROLINE; PUTRESCINE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030840353     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3223     Document Type: Article

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