Increased motility of Escherichia coli by insertion sequence element integration into the regulatory region of the flhD operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 7529-7537

  Barker, Clive S ^a   Prüß, Birgit M ^a   Matsumura, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL MOTILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE PROBE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; OPERON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 7744226739     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.22.7529-7537.2004     Document Type: Article

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