FimE-catalyzed off-to-on inversion of the type 1 fimbrial phase switch and insertion sequence recruitment in an Escherichia coli K-12 fimB strain

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 319-325

  Stentebjerg Olesen, Bodil ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Klemm, Per ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insertion sequence element recruitment; Regulation of type 1 fimbriae; Selective outgrowth

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RECOMBINASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AGGLUTINATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0033989809     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00608-4     Document Type: Article

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