The chemotaxis-like Che1 pathway has an indirect role in adhesive cell properties of Azospirillum brasilense

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-112

  Siuti, Piro ^a,b   Green, Calvin ^b   Edwards, Amanda Nicole ^a,b   Doktycz, Mitchel J ^a,b   Alexandre, Gladys ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Azospirillum brasilense; Chemotaxis; Flocculation

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CHE1 GENE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CHEMOTAXIS; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITROGEN;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE;

EID: 80052901173     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02366.x     Document Type: Article

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