An Agrobacterium VirB10 mutation conferring a type IV secretion system gating defect

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2566-2574

  Banta, Lois M ^a,b   Kerr, Jennifer E ^c   Cascales, Eric ^c,e   Giuliano, Meghan E ^a   Bailey, Megan E ^a   McKay, Cedar ^b   Chandran, Vidya ^d   Waksman, Gabriel ^d   Christie, Peter J ^c  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRE2 PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; CELL CONTACT; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSFER; CONFORMATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHIZOBIUM; SCREENING; TARGET CELL; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VIRB10 GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; ION CHANNELS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM;

EID: 79956096952     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00038-11     Document Type: Article

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