Secretion of a pneumococcal type II secretion system pilus correlates with DNA uptake during transformation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Balaban, Murat ^a   Bättig, Patrick ^a   Muschiol, Sandra ^a   Tirier, Stephan M ^a   Wartha, Florian ^a   Normark, Staffan ^a   Henriques Normark, Birgitta ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PILIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COMGC GENE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PILIN GENE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; DNA; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

EID: 84894370013     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313860111     Document Type: Article

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