Arcobacter spp. possess two very short flagellins of which FlaA is essential for motility

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-95

  Ho, Hoa T K ^a,b   Lipman, Len J A ^a,c   Wösten, Marc M S M ^a   Van Asten, Alphons J A M ^a   Gaastra, Wim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONG LAM UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arcobacter; Flagellin; Motility; Mutant; qPCR

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCOBACTER; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 43349106943     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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