Interaction between the IncHI1 plasmid R27 coupling protein and type IV secretion system: TraG associates with the coiled-coil mating pair formation protein TrhB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-116

  Gilmour, Matthew W ^a   Gunton, James E ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^a   Taylor, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COUPLING PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; INCHL1 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MPF PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PROLINE; RELAXOSOME; TRAG PROTEIN; TRHB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSFER; FAR WESTERN BLOTTING; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038385173     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03551.x     Document Type: Article

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