Genetic analysis and morphological identification of pilus-like structures in members of the genus Bifidobacterium

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Foroni, Elena ^a   Serafini, Fausta ^a   Amidani, Davide ^a   Turroni, Francesca ^a   He, Fei ^b   Bottacini, Francesca ^c   O'Connell Motherway, Mary ^c   Viappiani, Alice ^a   Zhang, Ziding ^b   Rivetti, Claudio ^a   van Sinderen, Douwe ^c   Ventura, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON; MESSENGER RNA; SORTASE; YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST FEEDING; CARBON SOURCE; CELL STRUCTURE; DENTAL CARIES; FECES; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS SUBSP. LACTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; POSIBACTERIA;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052194287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-10-S1-S16     Document Type: Article

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