Systematic Dissection of the Agrobacterium Type VI Secretion System Reveals Machinery and Secreted Components for Subcomplex Formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Jer Sheng ^a   Ma, Lay Sun ^a,b   Lai, Erh Min ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE ORDER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84879808167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067647     Document Type: Article

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