Insertional inactivation of genes encoding components of the sodium-type flagellar motor and switch of Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1035-1045

  Boles, Blaise R ^a   McCarter, Linda L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTON; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE INACTIVATION; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TORQUE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; STATOR; TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 0033984762     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.1035-1045.2000     Document Type: Article

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