Stability of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB10 protein is modulated by growth temperature and periplasmic osmoadaption

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 6597-6606

  Banta, Lois M ^a   Bohne, Jutta ^b,c   Lovejoy, S Dawn ^a   Dostal, Kathleen ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CROSS LINKING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOIL MICROFLORA; STEADY STATE; TUMOR GROWTH;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032414758     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.24.6597-6606.1998     Document Type: Article

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