The rfaH gene, which affects lipopolysaccharide synthesis in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, is differentially expressed during the bacterial growth phase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 123-128

  Rojas, Gonzalo ^a   Saldías, Soledad ^a   Bittner, Mauricio ^a   Zaldívar, Mercedes ^a   Contreras, Inés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Lipopolysaccharide; RfaH; Salmonella typhi

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN RFAH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TYPHOID FEVER;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035899970     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00390-1     Document Type: Article

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