Expressed and cryptic flagellin genes in the H44 and H55 type strains of Escherichia coli

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Tominaga, Akira ^a   Kutsukake, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptic gene; Escherichia coli; Flagellin gene; H antigen; Lateral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLAGELLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; SALMONELLA;

EID: 34047143699     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.82.1     Document Type: Article

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