Uptake of transforming DNA in Gram-positive bacteria: A view from Streptococcus pneumoniae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 411-421

  Bergé, Mathieu ^a   Moscoso, Miriam ^a   Prudhomme, Marc ^a   Martin, Bernard ^a   Claverys, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSFER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036069648     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03013.x     Document Type: Article

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