impA, a gene coding for an inner membrane protein, influences colonial morphology of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 6580-6586

  Mintz, Keith P ^a   Fives Taylor, Paula M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA FRAGMENT; INNER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0034441341     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.6580-6586.2000     Document Type: Article

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