Characteristics of Bacteroides fragilis lacking the major outer membrane protein, OmpA

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2694-2706

  Wexler, Hannah M ^a,b   Tenorio, Elizabeth ^a,b   Pumbwe, Lilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A1; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A4; OXYGEN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM STAINING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 70049100632     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.025858-0     Document Type: Article

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