Oxygen depletion triggers switching between discrete speed modes of gonococcal type IV pili

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2556-2563

  Kurre, Rainer ^a   Maier, Berenike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84861879403     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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