Natural transformation of Pseudomonas stutzeri by single-stranded DNA requires type IV pili, competence state and comA

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-80

  Meier, Petra ^a   Berndt, Cecilia ^a   Weger, Nicole ^a   Wackernagel, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ComA; Natural transformation; PilA; PilC; Pseudomonas stutzeri; Single stranded DNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN COMA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA TRANSFER; HEAT TREATMENT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

PILA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0037154433     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00507-9     Document Type: Article

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