Transcriptional Activity of the Host-Interaction Locus and a Putative Pilin Gene of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in the Predatory Life Cycle

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 310-316

  Schwudke, Dominik ^a,b   Bernhardt, Anne ^b   Beck, Sebastian ^a,b   Madela, Kazimierz ^b   Linscheid, Michael W ^a   Appel, Bernd ^b   Strauch, Eckhard ^b,c,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HOST INTERACTION LOCUS; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILIN GENE; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BDELLOVIBRIO; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 27744510119     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0030-1     Document Type: Article

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