Genetic mechanisms involved in the repression of flagellar assembly by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in human mucus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1026-1038

  Jyot, Jeevan ^a   Sonawane, Avinash ^a   Wu, Weihui ^b   Ramphal, Reuben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUCUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MUCUS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSPOSASES; UP-REGULATION;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33846604168     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05573.x     Document Type: Article

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