Article
Inversion-independent phase variation of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 1993
McClain M S, Blomfield I C, Eberhardt K J, Eisenstein B I
Abstract excerpt
The roles of fimB and fimE in the phase-variable expression of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli were examined. A method was developed to study the effects of fimB and fimE on both recombination of the fim invertible element and fimbrial expression. The method used an allelic exchange procedure...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Inversion
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Recombinant
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Gene Expression
- Genes, Bacterial
- Integrases
- Microscopy, Electron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed