Functional subsets of the VirB type IV transport complex proteins involved in the capacity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to serve as a recipient in virB-mediated conjugal transfer of plasmid RSF1010

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3259-3269

  Liu, Zhenying ^a   Binns, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RSF1010; PROTEIN VIRB10; PROTEIN VIRB6; PROTEIN VIRB7; PROTEIN VIRB8; PROTEIN VIRB9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN; VIRB TYPE 4 TRANSPORT COMPLEX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; KALANCHOE; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038529835     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3259-3269.2003     Document Type: Article

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