Vibrio fischeri σ54 Controls Motility, Biofilm Formation, Luminescence, and Colonization

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2520-2524

  Wolfe, Alan J ^a   Millikan, Deborah S ^b   Campbell, Joy M ^a   Visick, Karen L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENES;

BIOGENESIS; SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOFILM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROL SYSTEM; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RPON GENE; VIBRIO FISCHERI; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; VIBRIO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; SCOLOPES; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; IRON; NITROGEN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON;

BIOFILMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PLASMIDS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; VIBRIO;

EID: 3042550985     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2520-2524.2004     Document Type: Article

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