A putative ABC transporter is involved in negative regulation of biofilm formation by Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7675-7683

  Zhu, Xinna ^a,b   Long, Fei ^a   Chen, Yonghui ^a   Knøchel, Susanne ^c   She, Qunxin ^b   Shi, Xianming ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIOFILTERS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMASS; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE ENCODING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TRANSCRIPTION;

ABC TRANSPORTERS; BINDING PROTEINS; BIOFILM FORMATIONS; BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSES; CODING REGIONS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MONOCYTOGENES; PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS; TRANSMEMBRANE HELIXES;

BIOFILMS;

ABC TRANSPORTER;

AGGREGATION; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 57449107597     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01229-08     Document Type: Article

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