Type IV pili are involved in plant-microbe and fungus-microbe interactions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-17

  Dörr, Juliane ^a   Hurek, Thomas ^a   Reinhold Hurek, Barbara ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AZOARCUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYCELIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RICE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORYZA SATIVA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; AZOARCUS; AZOARCUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PILA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031696506     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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