The plant VirE2 interacting protein 1. A molecular link between the Agrobacterium T-complex and the host cell chromatin?

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1318-1321

  Loyter, Abraham ^a   Rosenbluh, Joseph ^a   Zakai, Nehama ^a   Li, Jianxiong ^b   Kozlovsky, Stanislav V ^b   Tzfira, Tzvi ^b   Citovsky, Vitaly ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRE2 PROTEIN, AGROBACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

EID: 27244444230     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.062547     Document Type: Article

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