Requirement of novel competence genes pilT and pilU of Pseudomonas stutzeri for natural transformation and suppression of pilT deficiency by a hexahistidine tag on the type IV pilus protein PilAI

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 4694-4701

  Graupner, S ^a   Weger, N ^a   Sohni, M ^a   Wackernagel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; HISTIDINE; PILIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; TRANSPOSON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PILA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0034908143     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.16.4694-4701.2001     Document Type: Article

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