Transport of DNA into the nuclei of xenopus oocytes by a modified VirE2 protein of agrobacterium

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-373

  Guralnick, Benjamin ^a   Thomsen, Gerald ^a   Citovsky, Vitaly ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; ANIMALIA; RHIZOBIUM; VIR;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; VIRE2 PROTEIN, AGROBACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030099238     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.3.363     Document Type: Article

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