Article
Characterization of pilQ, a new gene required for the biogenesis of type 4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1993
Martin P R, Hobbs M, Free P D, Jeske Y, Mattick J S
Abstract excerpt
Type 4 fimbriae are produced by a variety of pathogens, in which they appear to function in adhesion to epithelial cells, and in a form of surface translocation called twitching motility. Using transposon mutagenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, we have identified a new locus required for fimbrial...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Consensus Sequence
- Escherichia coli
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Phenotype
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid