VirE1 is a specific molecular chaperone for the exported single-stranded-DNA-binding protein VirE2 in Agrobacterium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1795-1807

  Deng, Wanyin ^a,c   Chen, Lishan ^a   Peng, Wen Tao ^a   Liang, Xiaoyou ^a   Sekiguchi, Susumu ^a   Gordon, Milton P ^b   Comai, Luca ^a   Nester, Eugene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CHAPERONE; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033060573     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01316.x     Document Type: Article

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