A flagellar-specific ATPase (FliI) is necessary for flagellar export in Helicobacter pylori

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-211

  Jenks, Peter J ^a   Foynes, Susan ^a   Ward, Stephen J ^a   Constantinidou, Chrystala ^b   Penn, Charles W ^b   Wren, Brendan W ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATPase; Flagellar export; Helicobacter pylori; Motility; Type III secretion pathway

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GASTRITIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PEPTIC ULCER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0030852276     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00170-5     Document Type: Article

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