Molecular analyses of the natural transformation machinery and identification of pilus structures in the extremely thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus strain HB27

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 745-755

  Friedrich, Alexandra ^a   Prust, Christina ^a   Hartsch, Thomas ^a   Henne, Anke ^a   Averhoff, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; PROTEINS;

MUTANTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEDYOTIS MANNII; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0036151806     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.2.745-755.2002     Document Type: Article

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