A 12-Base-Pair Deletion in the Flagellar Master Control Gene flhC Causes Nonmotility of the Pathogenic German Sorbitol-Fermenting Escherichia coli O157:H- Strains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2319-2327

  Monday, Steven R ^a   Minnich, Scott A ^b   Feng, Peter C H ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DNA; SORBITOL;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FLAGELLUM; GENE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERMANY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SORBITOL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1842558989     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.8.2319-2327.2004     Document Type: Article

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