The Brucella suis type IV secretion system assembles in the cell envelope of the heterologous host Agrobacterium tumefaciens and increases IncQ plasmid pLS1 recipient competence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-117

  Carle, Anna ^a   Höppner, Christoph ^a   Aly, Khaled Ahmed ^b   Yuan, Qing ^b   Den Dulk Ras, Amke ^c   Vergunst, Annette ^c,d   O'Callaghan, David ^d   Baron, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DETERGENT; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN VIRB1; PROTEIN VIRB10; PROTEIN VIRB11; PROTEIN VIRB12; PROTEIN VIRB3; PROTEIN VIRB4; PROTEIN VIRB5; PROTEIN VIRB6; PROTEIN VIRB7; PROTEIN VIRB8; PROTEIN VIRB9; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BRUCELLA SUIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID LS1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRB OPERON;

BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

EID: 29644436611     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.1.108-117.2006     Document Type: Article

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