Genetics of motility and chemotaxis of a fascinating group of bacteria: The spirochetes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-73

  Charon, Nyles W ^a   Goldstein, Stuart F ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flagella; Lyme disease; Motility; Sensory transduction; Syphilis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHEMOTAXIS; CILIARY MOTILITY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; LEPTOSPIRA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA;

CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SPIROCHAETALES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; LEPTOSPIRA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA;

EID: 0036948288     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.041602.134359     Document Type: Review

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