Virb7 lipoprotein is exocellular and associates with the Agrobacterium tumefaciens T pilus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3642-3651

  Sagulenko, V ^a   Sagulenko, E ^a   Jakubowski, S ^a   Spudich, E ^a   Christie, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMER; LIPOPROTEIN; MONOMER; OCTOPINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN VIRB7; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL SURFACE; CROSS LINKING; DELETION MUTANT; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SECRETION; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034992789     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.12.3642-3651.2001     Document Type: Article

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