F plasmid TraF and TraH are components of an outer membrane complex involved in conjugation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1730-1734

  Arutyunov, Denis ^a   Arenson, Barbara ^a   Manchak, Jan ^a   Frost, Laura S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT; FLOTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 77949398282     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00726-09     Document Type: Article

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