Identification of a new gene PA5017 involved in flagella-mediated motility, chemotaxis and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-195

  Li, Yingli ^a   Xia, Huiming ^a   Bai, Fang ^a   Xu, Haijin ^a   Yang, Liang ^b   Yao, Hongming ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Zhang, Xiuming ^a   Bai, Yanling ^a   Saris, Per E J ^c   Tolker Nielsen, Tim ^b   Qiao, Mingqiang ^a,c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Chemotaxis; Swarming motility; Swimming motility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FLAGELLUM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOFILMS; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34447540175     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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