Gliding mutants of Mycoplasma mobile: Relationships between motility and cell morphology, cell adhesion and microcolony formation

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1311-1320

  Miyata, Makoto ^a   Yamamoto, Hitoshi ^a   Shimizu, Takashi ^a,b   Uenoyama, Atsuko ^a   Citti, Christine ^c   Rosengarten, Renate ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cell morphology; Gliding mutants; Mollicutes; Mycoplasma mobile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; COLONY FORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MOBILE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MOBILE; MYCOPLASMATALES; UNCLASSIFIED ORGANISMS;

EID: 0034041197     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-6-1311     Document Type: Article

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