Flagellar motility and structure in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4305-4309

  Szabó, Zalán ^a,c   Sani, Musa ^a   Groeneveld, Maarten ^a   Zolghadr, Benham ^a   Schelert, James ^b   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a   Blum, Paul ^b   Boekema, Egbert J ^a   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENZYMOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAJ GENE; GENE LOCUS; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENE ORDER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; OPERON; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ARCHAEA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 34247498903     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00042-07     Document Type: Article

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