Identification of Tn10 insertions in the dsbA gene affecting Escherichia coli biofilm formation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 403-409

  Genevaux, Pierre ^a   Bauda, Pascale ^b   DuBow, Michael S ^c   Oudega, Bauke ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centre of Environmental Sciences   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abiotic surface; Adhesion; Biofilm formation; DsbA; Escherichia coli; Mini Tn10

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL SURFACE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; PERIPLASM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSTYRENES; PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032971485     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00110-X     Document Type: Article

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