Regulation of P-fimbrial phase variation frequencies in Escherichia coli CFT073

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3325-3334

  Holden, Nicola ^a   Totsika, Makrina ^a   Dixon, Lynn ^a   Catherwood, Kirsteen ^a   Gally, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI CFT073; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PAP GENE; PAPI GENE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; OPERON; PYELONEPHRITIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URINE;

EID: 34447283338     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01989-06     Document Type: Article

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