Systematic characterization of Escherichia coli genes/ORFs affecting biofilm formation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-114

  Tenorio, Elizabeth ^a   Saeki, Takashi ^a   Fujita, Katsutoshi ^d   Kitakawa, Madoka ^a   Baba, Tomoya ^b   Mori, Hirotada ^c   Isono, Katsumi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Biofilm formation; Complete set of genomic clones; Escherichia coli; Gene over expression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0142043310     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00507-X     Document Type: Article

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