Insertional inactivation of Treponema denticola tap1 results in a nonmotile mutant with elongated flagellar hooks

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3743-3750

  Limberger, Ronald J ^a   Slivienski, Linda L ^a   Izard, Jacques ^a   Samsonoff, William A ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 0033014008     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.12.3743-3750.1999     Document Type: Article

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