Conjugative plasmid DNA transfer in Helicobacter pylori mediated by chromosomally encoded relaxase and TraG-like proteins

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3493-3503

  Backert, Steffen ^a   Kwok, Terry ^a   König, Wolfgang ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 27744496985     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28250-0     Document Type: Article

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