Roles for Fis and YafK in biofilm formation by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 983-997

  Sheikh, Jalaluddin ^a   Hicks, Susan ^b   Dall'Agnol, Monique ^a   Phillips, Alan D ^b   Nataro, James P ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLASS; PLASTIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; FIS GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; YAFK GENE;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; BIOPSY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLON; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GLASS; HUMANS; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLASTICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035788453     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02512.x     Document Type: Article

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