VirE2, a type IV secretion substrate, interacts with the VirD4 transfer protein at cell poles of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1699-1713

  Atmakuri, Krishnamohan ^a   Ding, Zhiyong ^a   Christie, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; DNA; PROTEIN ACVB; PROTEIN VIRD 4; PROTEIN VIRE 1; PROTEIN VIRE 2; PROTEIN VIRJ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; HYBRID; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SECRETION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ION CHANNELS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

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

EID: 0141789692     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03669.x     Document Type: Article

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