A locus coding for putative non ribosomal peptide/polyketide synthase functions is mutated in a swarming defective Proteus mirabilis strain

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 415-427

  Gaisser, S ^a   Hughes, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABC transporters; Non ribosomal peptide synthesis; Polyketides; Swarming

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PHEROMONE; POLYKETIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; REPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRABILIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0031035424     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050339     Document Type: Article

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