Expression and transcriptional control of the Salmonella typhimurium lpf fimbrial operon by phase variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 311-320

  Norris, Tracy L ^a   Kingsley, Robert A ^a   Bäumler, Andreas J ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PEYER PATCH; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031872415     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00934.x     Document Type: Article

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