Downregulation of the motA gene delays the escape of the obligate predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovirus 109J from bdelloplasts of bacterial prey cells

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 649-656

  Flannagan, Ronald S ^a   Valvano, Miguel A ^a   Koval, Susan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH CURVE; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642378624     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26761-0     Document Type: Article

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