Insertional inactivation of the Listeria monocytogenes cheYA operon abolishes response to oxygen gradients and reduces the number of flagella

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 646-652

  Flanary, Paul L ^a,c   Allen, Richard D ^a   Dons, Lone ^b   Kathariou, Sophia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Flagella; Listeria; Motility

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLUM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0040357326     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w99-052     Document Type: Article

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