The deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9 utilizes separate flagellar systems for swimming and swarming under high-pressure conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6298-6305

  Eloe, Emiley A ^a   Lauro, Federico M ^a,c   Vogel, Rudi F ^b   Bartlett, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOTORS; SODIUM; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; WATER POLLUTION;

BIOFILM FORMATIONS; CELLULAR PROCESSES; CRITICAL FUNCTIONS; E. COLI; ELEVATED PRESSURES; FLAGELLAR GENES; FLAGELLAR MOTORS; GENE CLUSTERS; HIGH PRESSURES; MAXIMUM PRESSURES; MESOPHILIC BACTERIA; NUTRIENT ACQUISITIONS; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SWIMMING VELOCITIES;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP SEA; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PRESSURE; MOTILITY; MUTATION; SHALLOW WATER; SWIMMING; VISCOSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DEEP SEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAA GENE; FLAB GENE; FLAC GENE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPERBARISM; MOTA1 GENE; MOTA2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWIMMING; VISCOSITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LOCOMOTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOTOBACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM 3TCK;

EID: 54949088268     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01316-08     Document Type: Article

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