Natural transformation in Helicobacter pylori: DNA transport in an unexpected way

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 159-162

  Smeets, Leonard C ^a   Kusters, Johannes G ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH MUCOSA;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0036532408     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02314-4     Document Type: Review

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