A type IV-secretion-like system is required for conjugative DNA transport of broad-host-range plasmid pIP501 in gram-positive bacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2487-2496

  Abajy, Mohammad Y ^a   Kopeć, Jolanta ^a,b   Schiwon, Katarzyna ^a   Burzynski, Michal ^a,c   Döring, Mike ^a   Bohn, Christine ^a   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN TRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID IP501; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

AGROBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33947121550     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01491-06     Document Type: Article

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