Isolation and characterization of a suppressor mutation that restores Myxococcus xanthus exopolysaccharide production

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3599-3610

  Black, Wesley P ^a   Xu, Qian ^a,d   Cadieux, Christena Linn ^a   Suh, Sang Jin ^b   Shi, Wenyuan ^c   Yang, Zhaomin ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEW PROTEIN; CHEW PROTEIN 7; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 7; PROTEIN DIFA; PROTEIN DIFC; PROTEIN DIFE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PILA;

EID: 70450227163     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031070-0     Document Type: Article

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