AgfD the checkpoint of multicellular and aggregative behaviour in Salmonella typhimurium regulates at least two independent pathways

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-23

  Römling, Ute ^a   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Olsén, Arne ^c   Normark, Staffan ^d   Reinköster, Jürgen ^a  

^a Division of Cell Biology   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034128490     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01822.x     Document Type: Article

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