Roles of the regulatory proteins FlhF and FlhG in the Vibrio cholerae flagellar transcription hierarchy

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6324-6332

  Correa, Nidia E ^a   Peng, Fen ^a   Klose, Karl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLHF; PROTEIN FLHG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLHF GENE; FLHG GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE VC2061;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 24944494041     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.18.6324-6332.2005     Document Type: Article

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