The Agrobacterium tumefaciens motor gene, motA, is in a linked cluster with the flagellar switch protein genes, fliG, fliM and fliN

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 139-141

  Deakin, William J ^a   Sanderson, James L C I ^a   Goswami, Tapasree ^a   Shaw, Charles H ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Flagella; Motility; Motor; Switch protein

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SWITCH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; FLAGELLUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0030981844     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00853-0     Document Type: Article

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