Delineation of the interaction domains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB7 and VirB9 by use of the yeast two-hybrid assay

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3404-3409

  Das, Anath ^a   Anderson, Lorraine B ^a   Xie, Yong Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HYBRID; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; YEAST;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0030920071     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3404-3409.1997     Document Type: Article

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