The molecular structure of agrobacterium VirE2-Single stranded DNA complexes involved in nuclear import

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 718-727

  Citovsky, Vitaly ^a   Guralnick, Benjamin ^a,c   Simon, Martha N ^b   Wall, Joseph S ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Nuclear import; Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM); VirE2 protein; VirE2 ssDNA complexes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031554928     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1230     Document Type: Article

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