Speed Switching of Gonococcal Surface Motility Correlates with Proton Motive Force

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kurre, Rainer ^a   Kouzel, Nadzeya ^a   Ramakrishnan, Kanimozhi ^a   Oldewurtel, Enno R ^a   Maier, Berenike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHLUORIN GENE; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; VELOCITY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATP SYNTHETASE COMPLEXES; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOVEMENT; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NITRITES; OXYGEN; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84879470925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067718     Document Type: Article

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