Photorhabdus phase variants express a novel fimbrial locus, mad, essential for symbiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1021-1038

  Somvanshi, Vishal S ^a   Kaufmann Daszczuk, Bettina ^a   Kim, Kwi Suk ^a   Mallon, Shane ^a   Ciche, Todd A ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Center for Microbial Pathogenesis Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL MUTANT; CELL STRUCTURE; FIMBRIA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE A GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE B GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE E GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE F GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE G GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE H GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE I GENE; MATERNAL ADHESION DEFECTIVE J GENE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTORHABDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; RHABDITOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PHOTORHABDUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHABDITOIDEA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77955389690     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07270.x     Document Type: Article

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