Expression of Agrobacterium tumefaciens octopine Ti-plasmid virB8 gene is regulated by translational coupling

Plasmid

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-80

  Mossey, Pamela ^a   Das, Anath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Translation start site; Translational coupling; Type IV secretion; VirB3 stabilization; VirB8 expression

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OCTOPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB7 PROTEIN; VIRB8 PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CARCINOGENESIS; CISTRON; CODON; DELETION MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TI PLASMID; TRANSLATION COUPLING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 84871943877     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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