Identification of a gene essential for sheathed structure formation in Sphaerotilus natans, a filamentous sheathed bacterium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 365-371

  Suzuki, T ^a   Kanagawa, T ^a   Kamagata, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; LIPIDS; MUTAGENESIS; SUGARS;

SHEATHED STRUCTURE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

BACTERIUM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPHAEROTILUS NATANS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; SPHAEROTILUS NATANS; TRANSPOSON TN5; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036135170     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.1.365-371.2002     Document Type: Article

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