DNA Transport and Natural Transformation in Mesophilic and Thermophilic Bacteria

Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-33

  Averhoff, Beate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competence proteins; DNA transport; Natural transformation; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PILIN;

BACTERIUM PILUS; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; DNA TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; SHORT SURVEY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 16544374326     PISSN: 0145479X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOBB.0000019595.66733.fa     Document Type: Short Survey

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