The T-pilus of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 361-369

  Lai, Erh Min ^a   Kado, Clarence I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CYCLOPEPTIDE; PILIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0034255183     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01802-3     Document Type: Review

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