Characterization of the BatI (Bacteroides aerotolerance) operon in Bacteroides fragilis: Isolation of a B. fragilis mutant with reduced aerotolerance and impaired growth in in vivo model systems

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 139-149

  Tang, Yixin P ^a   Dallas, Mary M ^a   Malamy, Michael H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYSTEINE; DITHIOTHREITOL; OXYGEN; REDUCING AGENT; REPETITIVE DNA;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRANULOMA; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PLASMID; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TRANSPOSON;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CRICETINAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GRANULOMA; MICE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; RATS; REDUCING AGENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032589120     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01337.x     Document Type: Article

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