Self-assembly of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB11 traffic ATPase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 4137-4145

  Rashkova, Svetlana ^a,c   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a,d   Chen, Jun ^a   Christie, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL DNA; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; LAMBDA CI REPRESSOR PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0033939998     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.15.4137-4145.2000     Document Type: Article

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