Two novel proteins, PopB, which has functional nuclear localization signals, and PopC, which has a large leucine-rich repeat domain, are secreted through the Hrp-secretion apparatus of Ralstonia solanacearum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 261-277

  Guéneron, Mareva ^a   Timmers, Antonius C J ^a   Boucher, Christian ^a   Arlat, Matthieu ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONGO RED; LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONGO RED; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 0034014221     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01870.x     Document Type: Article

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