Improved allelic exchange vectors and their use to analyze 987P fimbria gene expression

Gene

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-157

  Edwards, Robert A ^a   Keller, Linda H ^a   Schifferli, Dieter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

987P; Fimbriae; hns; Osmolarity; Pili; sacB

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; IRON; PLASMID DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

AGFA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERITIDIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

EID: 0032579193     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00619-7     Document Type: Article

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