The fimbriae activator MatA switches off motility in Escherichia coli by repression of the flagellar master operon flhDC

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1444-1455

  Lehti, Timo A ^a   Bauchart, Philippe ^b,c   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^b,d   Korhonen, Timo K ^a   Westerlund Wikström, Benita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFESTYLE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ISOLATION; SYNTHESIS;

DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861879101     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.056499-0     Document Type: Article

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