A genomic islet mediates flagellar phase variation in Escherichia coli strains carrying the flagellin-specifying locus flk

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4470-4477

  Feng, Lu ^a,b,c   Liu, Bin ^a,b,c   Liu, Yanqun ^a,b   Ratiner, Yuli A ^d   Hu, Bo ^a,b   Li, Dan ^a,b   Zong, Xiaolin ^a,b   Xiong, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b,c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEDA   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d MECHNIKOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR VACCINES AND SERA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLIC GENE; FLK GENE; FLKA GENE; FLKB GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 46049100202     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01937-07     Document Type: Article

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