DNA uptake in bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 217-244

  Dubnau, David ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; DNA transport; Pilus formation; Transformation; Type 2 secretion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032697140     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.217     Document Type: Review

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