The three-layered DNA uptake machinery at the cell pole in competent Bacillus subtilis cells is a stable complex

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1633-1642

  Kaufenstein, Miriam ^a   Van Der Laan, Martin ^b   Graumann, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Zentrum fur Biochemie und Molekulare Zellforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL POLARITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REC A RECOMBINASES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79952806966     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01128-10     Document Type: Article

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