An activation domain of plasmid R1 TraI protein delineates stages of gene transfer initiation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1071-1085

  Lang, Silvia ^a   Kirchberger, Paul C ^a   Gruber, Christian J ^a   Redzej, Adam ^b   Raffl, Sandra ^a   Zellnig, Guenther ^a   Zangger, Klaus ^b   Zechner, Ellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN TRAD; PROTEIN TRAL; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIOLYSIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LEVIVIRUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REPLICATION ORIGIN; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 82155162342     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07872.x     Document Type: Article

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