The Pseudomonas aeruginosa motR gene involved in regulation of bacterial motility

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-62

  Campos García, Jesús ^a   Nájera, Rebeca ^a   Camarena, Laura ^b   Soberón Chávez, Gloria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0342980432     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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