Isolation and characterization of bile salts-sensitive mutants of Enterococcus faecalis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 434-439

  Le Breton, Yoann ^a   Mazé, Alain ^a   Hartke, Axel ^a   Lemarinier, Sylviane ^a   Auffray, Yanick ^a   Rincé, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE SALT; DEOXYGUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILE ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPAIR; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE MUTATION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION;

EID: 0036884874     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3714-9     Document Type: Article

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