Regulation of the Klebsiella pneumoniae Kpc fimbriae by the site-specific recombinase KpcI

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1983-1992

  Wu, Chien Chen ^a   Huang, Ying Jung ^a   Fung, Chang Phone ^b,c   Peng, Hwei Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE CLUSTER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INVERTED REPEAT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KPA FIMBRIAE; KPB FIMBRIAE; KPC FIMBRIAE; KPD FIMBRIAE; KPE FIMBRIAE; KPF FIMBRIAE; KPG FIMBRIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTYPE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77954613892     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038158-0     Document Type: Article

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