Flavobacterium johnsoniae sprB is part of an operon spanning the additional gliding motility genes sprC, sprD, and sprF

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 599-610

  Rhodes, Ryan G ^a   Nelson, Shawn S ^a   Pochiraju, Soumya ^a   McBride, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; FLAVOBACTERIUM JOHNSONIAE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPRB GENE; SPRC GENE; SPRD GENE; SPRF GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; LOCOMOTION; MUTATION; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FLAVOBACTERIUM JOHNSONIAE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 78751528087     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01203-10     Document Type: Article

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