A new class of Caulobacter crescentus flagellar genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 5010-5019

  Leclerc, Guy ^a   Wang, Shui Ping ^a,b   Ely, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FLAGELLIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS;

EID: 0842303067     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.19.5010-5019.1998     Document Type: Article

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