One out of Four: HspL but No Other Small Heat Shock Protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Acts as Efficient Virulence-Promoting VirB8 Chaperone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Tsai, Yun Long ^a,c   Chiang, Yin Ru ^a,d   Wu, Chih Feng ^a   Narberhaus, Franz ^b   Lai, Erh Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c GeneReach Biotechnology Corporation   (Taiwan)

^d BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VIRB8; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HSPAT1 GENE; HSPAT2 GENE; HSPC GENE; HSPL GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84869776903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049685     Document Type: Article

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