Conjugative DNA transfer into human cells by the VirB/VirD4 type IV secretion system of the bacterial pathogen Bartonella henselae

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

Volumn 108, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 14643-14648

  Schröder, Gunnar ^a,b   Schuelein, Ralf ^a,c   Quebatte, Maxime ^a   Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial conjugation; Bacterial infection; oriT; Relaxase; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; KANAMYCIN KINASE; PLASMID DNA; VIRB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME; DNA TRANSFER; EGFP GENE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80052291791     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019074108     Document Type: Article

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