Multicellular and aggregative behaviour of Salmonella typhimurium strains is controlled by mutations in the agfD promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-264

  Römling, Ute ^a,c   Sierralta, Walter D ^b   Eriksson, Kristina ^a   Normark, Staffan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGFA; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031896213     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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