Mutation design and strain background influence the phenotype of Escherichia coliluxS mutants

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 951-969

  Haigh, Richard ^a   Kumar, Brijesh ^a   Sandrini, Sara ^a   Freestone, Primrose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRODUCT; LUXS GENE; METABOLIC STRESS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878396943     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12237     Document Type: Article

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