Agrobacterium flagellar switch gene fliG is liquid inducible and important for virulence

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 753-758

  Li, Luoping ^a   Jia, Yong H ^a   Pan, Shen Q ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Flagella; FliG; Liquid; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TUMORS;

SEQUENCED ANALYSIS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM;

AGROBACTERIUM FLAGELLAR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; FLIG GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE SWITCHING; LIQUID; LIQUID CULTURE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLID; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SWITCH; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLANT TUMORS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036436247     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w02-067     Document Type: Article

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