PilT2 enhances the speed of gonococcal type IV pilus retraction and of twitching motility

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 857-865

  Kurre, Rainer ^a   Höne, Andrea ^b   Clausen, Martin ^b   Meel, Claudia ^a   Maier, Berenike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; PROTEIN PILT2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL ELONGATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PILT2 GENE; PILU GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TWITCHING MOTILITY;

FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LOCOMOTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84871925500     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12022     Document Type: Article

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