Involvement of the Cpx signal transduction pathway of E. coli in biofilm formation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 169-175

  Dorel, Corinne ^a   Vidal, Olivier ^a   Prigent Combaret, Claire ^a   Vallet, Isabelle ^a   Lejeune, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Cpx pathway; Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032799155     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00347-X     Document Type: Article

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