Agrobacterium type IV secretion system and its substrates form helical arrays around the circumference of virulence-induced cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3758-3763

  Aguilar, Julieta ^a   Zupan, John ^a   Cameron, Todd A ^a   Zambryski, Patricia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIR;

EID: 77649247997     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914940107     Document Type: Article

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