Membrane and core periplasmic Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence type IV secretion system components localize to multiple sites around the bacterial perimeter during lateral attachment to plant cells

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Aguilar, Julieta ^a   Cameron, Todd A ^a   Zupan, John ^a   Zambryski, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NOPALINE; OCTOPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN; VIRB1 PROTEIN; VIRB10 PROTEIN; VIRB11 PROTEIN; VIRB2 PROTEIN; VIRB4 PROTEIN; VIRB5 PROTEIN; VIRB7 PROTEIN; VIRB8 PROTEIN; VIRB9 PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLAST; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIR;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLASTS; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84855219447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00218-11     Document Type: Article

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