Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes required for social motility in Myxococcus xanthus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 206-220

  Lu, Ann ^a   Cho, Kyunyung ^b   Black, Wesley P ^c   Duan, Xue Yan ^d   Lux, Renate ^a   Yang, Zhaomin ^c   Kaplan, Heidi B ^d   Zusman, David R ^b   Shi, Wenyuan ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; MUTAGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 12344296961     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04369.x     Document Type: Article

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