Identification of MrpI as the sole recombinase that regulates the phase variation of MR/P fimbria, a bladder colonization factor of uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 865-874

  Li, Xin ^a   Lockatell, C Virginia ^a   Johnson, David E ^a,b   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MANNOSE; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KIDNEY; MANNOSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEUS INFECTIONS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RECOMBINASES; URINARY BLADDER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRABILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0036373258     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03067.x     Document Type: Article

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