A novel non-homologous recombination-mediated mechanism for Escherichia coli unilateral flagellar phase variation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4530-4538

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Hu, Bo ^a,b   Zhou, Zhemin ^a,b   Guo, Dan ^a,b   Guo, Xi ^a,b   Ding, Peng ^a,b   Feng, Lu ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b,c,d  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics   (China)

^c Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; FLAGELLIN; INTEGRASE; PROTEIN INT1157; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; FLAGELLAR PHASE VARIATION; FLNA GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INT1157 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861568496     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks040     Document Type: Article

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