Peptidoglycan-hydrolyzing activity of the FlgJ protein, essential for flagellar rod formation in Salmonella typhimurium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1555-1561

  Nambu, Takayuki ^a   Minamino, Tohru ^b   Macnab, Robert M ^b   Kutsukake, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033053893     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.5.1555-1561.1999     Document Type: Article

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