Glycosylation genes expressed in seam cells determine complex surface properties and bacterial adhesion to the cuticle of Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-155

  Gravato Nobre, Maria J ^a   Stroud, Dave ^a   O'Rourke, Delia ^a   Darby, Creg ^b   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BUS 12 GENE; BUS 17 GENE; BUS 2 GENE; BUS 4 GENE; BUS 8 GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HERMAPHRODITISM; MATING; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SRF 3 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; YERSINIA;

EID: 78951474349     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.122002     Document Type: Article

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