The Agrobacterium T-DNA transport pore proteins VirB8, VirB9, and Virb10 interact with one another

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 758-763

  Das, Anath ^a   Xie, Yong Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; RHIZOBIUM; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0033979867     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.3.758-763.2000     Document Type: Article

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