Deletion of the Escherichia coli uup gene encoding a protein of the ATP binding cassette superfamily affects bacterial competitiveness

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 159, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 671-677

  Murat, Dorothée ^a   Goncalves, Laurent ^a   Dassa, Elie ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

ABC ATPases; Cell communication; Precise excision; Transposons

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSPOSON; UUP GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HYDROLYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 56949100130     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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