Type IV pilus gene homologs pilABCD are required for natural transformation in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Gene

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 249-255

  Wang, Ying ^a   Shi, Wenyuan ^b   Chen, Weizhen ^a   Chen, Casey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA uptake; Fimbria; Natural competence; Periodontal pathogens

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME MARKER; COMPETENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FIMBRIA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRAIN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WILD TYPE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PILA;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PILA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PILB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PREPILIN PEPTIDASE PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PROTEINASE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PILI, SEX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0141541800     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00620-6     Document Type: Article

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