Effect of site-specific mutations in different phosphotransfer domains of the chemosensory protein ChpA on Pseudomonas aeruginosa motility

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8479-8486

  Leech, Andrew J ^a,b   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHPA PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; KANAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; THREONINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33845439378     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00157-06     Document Type: Article

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