Mutation analysis of the flp operon in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Gene

Volumn 351, Issue , 2005, Pages 61-71

  Wang, Ying ^a   Chen, Casey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Biofilm; Gene deletion; Pili

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VIVO CULTURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 19544364291     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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