Osa protein encoded by plasmid pSa is located at the inner membrane but does not inhibit membrane association of VirB and VirD virulence proteins in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-92

  Chen, Chao Ying ^a,b   Kado, Clarence I ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Crown gall tumors; Fertility inhibition; IncW plasmid; Oncogenicity; pSa plasmid; RP1 plasmid; Ti plasmid; Vir proteins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

EID: 0030059277     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00434-3     Document Type: Article

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