Flow cytometry-based enrichment for cell shape mutants identifies multiple genes that influence Helicobacter pylori morphology

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 869-883

  Sycuro, Laura K ^a   Rule, Chelsea S ^a,b   Petersen, Timothy W ^c   Wyckoff, Timna J ^a,d   Sessler, Tate ^a   Nagarkar, Dilip B ^a   Khalid, Fakhra ^a   Pincus, Zachary ^e   Biboy, Jacoby ^f   Vollmer, Waldemar ^f   Salama, Nina R ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BD Biosciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; LD CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MURJ; PROTEIN MVIN; TETRAPEPTIDE; TRIPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CLONE; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL WALL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MUTATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 84887411138     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12405     Document Type: Article

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