Minimum requirements of flagellation and motility for infection of Agrobacterium sp. strain H13-3 by flagellotropic bacteriophage 7-7-1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7216-7222

  Yen, Jiun Y ^a   Broadway, Katherine M ^a   Scharf, Birgit E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM SP; CHARGED RESIDUES; FLAGELLAR MOTORS; FLAGELLIN PROTEINS; INFECTIVITY ASSAY; MOTOR COMPONENTS; PHAGE INFECTION; POINT MUTATIONS; POSITIVELY CHARGED; ROTARY SPEED;

CELLS; GENE ENCODING; MUTAGENESIS;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; FLAB FLAGELLIN; FLAD PROTEIN, BACTERIA; FLAGELLIN; MOTA PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; FLAGELLATE; MOTILITY; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; LOCOMOTION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RHIZOBIUM; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

AGROBACTERIUM SP.; RHIZOBIUM LUPINI;

EID: 84868368389     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01082-12     Document Type: Article

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