More than one way to control hair growth: Regulatory mechanisms in enterobacteria that affect fimbriae assembled by the chaperone/usher pathway

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2081-2088

  Clegg, Steven ^a   Wilson, Janet ^a   Johnson, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHAPERONE;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR GROWTH; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 79955532633     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00071-11     Document Type: Review

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