Concerted transfer of the virulence Ti plasmid and companion At plasmid in the agrobacterium tumefaciens-induced plant tumour

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1178-1189

  Lang, Julien ^a   Planamente, Sara ^a   Mondy, Samuel ^a   Dessaux, Yves ^a   Moréra, Solange ^b   Faure, Denis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCR PROTEIN; AGROCINOPINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NOPALINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; T4SS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCR GENE; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; AT PLASMID; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT TUMOR; PLASMID; PLASMID CONJUGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; REPLICON; TI PLASMID; WILD TYPE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; PLANT TUMORS; QUORUM SENSING; REPLICON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84890127546     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12423     Document Type: Article

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