Immotile phenotype of an Escherichia coli mutant lacking the histone- like protein HU

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 297-301

  Nishida, Satoshi ^a   Mizushima, Tohru ^a   Miki, Takeyoshi ^a   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Escherichia coli; Flagellin; HU protein

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030914036     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00134-1     Document Type: Article

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