A swarming-defective mutant of Proteus mirabilis lacking a putative cation-transporting membrane P-type ATPase

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1957-1961

  Lai, Hsin Chih ^a,b   Gygi, Daniel ^a   Fraser, Gillian M ^a   Hughes, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

P type ATPase; Proteus mirabilis; Swarming

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRABILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0031855746     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-7-1957     Document Type: Article

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