Isolation and characterisation of a linked cluster of genes from Agrobacterium tumefaciens encoding proteins involved in flagellar basal-body structure

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-137

  Deakin, William J ^a   Furniss, Caroline S M ^a,b   Parker, Victoria E ^a   Shaw, Charles H ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Basal body; Flagella; Motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRIOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030977770     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00780-9     Document Type: Article

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