Spatial patterns of alkaline phosphatase expression within bacterial colonies and biofilms in response to phosphate starvation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1526-1531

  Huang, Ching Tsan ^a,b   Xu, Karen D ^a   McFeters, Gordon A ^a   Stewart, Philip S ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STARVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031969611     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1526-1531.1998     Document Type: Article

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