Role of the histidine kinase, envZ, in the production of outer membrane proteins in the symbiotic-pathogenic bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophilus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 962-968

  Forst, Steven A ^a   Tabatabai, Niloofar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HISTIDINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 0031018206     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.962-968.1997     Document Type: Article

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