Genetical and functional investigation of fliC genes encoding flagellar serotype H4 in wildtype strains of Escherichia coli and in a laboratory E. coli K-12 strain expressing flagellar antigen type H48

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Beutin, Lothar ^a   Strauch, Eckhard ^a   Zimmermann, Sonja ^a   Kaulfuss, Stefan ^a   Schaudinn, Christoph ^a   Männel, Andrea ^a   Gelderblom, Hans R ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REFERENCE VALUE; SEROTYPING; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROTYPING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 14644436442     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-5-4     Document Type: Article

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