Conjugative DNA transfer in Streptomyces by TraB: Is one protein enough?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-88

  Thoma, Lina ^a   Muth, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome mobilization; DNA translocation; FtsK; Plasmid transfer; Streptomyces; TraB

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN FTSK; PROTEIN TRAB; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE LOCUS; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR SIZE; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOMYCES; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; STREPTOMYCES;

STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84870370095     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12031     Document Type: Short Survey

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