Type IV pili and twitching motility

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 289-314

  Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colonization; Myxococcus; Neisseria; Pseudomonas; Type 4 fimbriae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CELL MOTILITY; FRUITING BODY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036405357     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160938     Document Type: Review

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