The lipoprotein VirB7 interacts with VirB9 in the membranes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1211-1218

  Baron, Christian ^a,b   Thorstenson, Yvonne R ^a,c   Zambryski, Patricia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; INNER CELL MASS; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031050787     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.4.1211-1218.1997     Document Type: Article

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