Characterization of two host-specific genes, mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (mshA) and uridyl phosphate dehydrogenase (UDPDH) that are involved in the Vibrio fischeri-Euprymna tasmanica mutualism

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-73

  Ariyakumar, Don Sanjiv ^a   Nishiguchi, Michele K ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Biofilm; Colonization; Mutualism; Pathogenesis; Squid; Symbiosis; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; MANNOSE SENSITIVE HEMAGGLUTININ; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 6 DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DECAPODIFORMES; HEMAGGLUTININS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MUTATION; SYMBIOSIS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA TASMANICA; SEPIOLIDA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 69949166082     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01732.x     Document Type: Article

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