Smooth to rugose phase variation in Vibrio cholerae can be mediated by a single nucleotide change that targets c-di-GMP signalling pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 995-1007

  Beyhan, Sinem ^a   Yildiz, Fitnat H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CYCLIC GMP; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33846616323     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05568.x     Document Type: Article

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