General requirements for protein secretion by the F-like conjugation system R1

Plasmid

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 128-138

  Lang, Silvia ^a   Zechner, Ellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacterial conjugation; Bacterial type IV secretion; Coupling protein; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid R1; Relaxosome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CRE RECOMBINASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE GENE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMID R1; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE ORDER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; R FACTORS; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859000372     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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