Enterobacterial common antigen integrity is a checkpoint for flagellar biogenesis in Serratia marcescens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Castelli, María E ^a   Fedrigo, Griselda V ^a   Clementín, Ana L ^a   Ielmini, M Verónica ^b   Feldman, Mario F ^b   Véscovi, Eleonora García ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ENTEROBACTERIAL COMMON ANTIGEN; FLAGELLIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE PHIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL MOTILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FLHDC GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SCREENING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SOIL MICROFLORA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SWARMING ASSAY; SWIMMING ASSAY; WEC GENE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 37549049738     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01348-07     Document Type: Article

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