Contribution of surfactin and SwrA to flagellin expression, swimming, and surface motility in bacillus subtilis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6540-6544

  Ghelardi, Emilia ^a   Salvetti, Sara ^a   Ceragioli, Mara ^a   Gueye, Sokhna A ^a   Celandroni, Francesco ^a   Senesi, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIO SURFACTANT; EXPANSIVE FORCE; LIPOPEPTIDES; LOW HUMIDITY; MOIST SURFACES; MULTICELLULAR COMMUNITIES; MUTANT STRAIN; SUBTILIS; SURFACE WETTABILITY; SURFACTIN; SWIMMING MOTILITY;

GENES; MUTAGENESIS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

CYCLOPEPTIDE; FLAGELLIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; SURFACTIN PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; COLONY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOTILITY; MUTATION; SURFACTANT; SWARMING;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; LIPOPEPTIDES; LOCOMOTION; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866174411     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01341-12     Document Type: Article

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