Agrobacterium tumefaciens possesses a fourth flagellin gene located in a large gene cluster concerned with flagellar structure, assembly and motility

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1397-1407

  Deakin, William J ^a,b   Parker, Victoria E ^a   Wright, Emma L ^a   Ashcroft, Kevin J ^a   Loake, Gary J ^a,c   Shaw, Charles H ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Flagella; Flagellin; Motility

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE CLUSTER; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032980155     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-6-1397     Document Type: Article

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