DNA transport into Bacillus subtilis requires proton motive force to generate large molecular forces

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 643-649

  Maier, Berenike ^a,c   Chen, Ines ^b   Dubnau, David ^b   Sheetz, Michael P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA; PROTONS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 3042555855     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb783     Document Type: Article

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