Identification of two new genes involved in twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2653-2661

  Shan, Zhiying ^a,b   Xu, Haijin ^a   Shi, Xingqi ^a   Yu, Yan ^a   Yao, Hongming ^a   Zhang, Xiuming ^a   Bai, Yanling ^a   Gao, Caichang ^a   Saris, Per E J ^c   Qiao, Mingqiang ^a,c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4444296303     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27131-0     Document Type: Article

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