Identification of exopolysaccharide-deficient mutants of Mycoplasma pulmonis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1235-1245

  Daubenspeck, James M ^a   Bolland, Jeffrey R ^a   Luo, Wenyi ^b   Simmons, Warren L ^b   Dybvig, Kevin ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRIFFONIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLLICUTES; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GALACTOSE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LECTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MUTATION; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS;

EID: 65949086032     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06720.x     Document Type: Article

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