ComEA Is Essential for the Transfer of External DNA into the Periplasm in Naturally Transformable Vibrio cholerae Cells

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Seitz, Patrick ^a   Pezeshgi Modarres, Hassan ^a,b   Borgeaud, Sandrine ^a   Bulushev, Roman D ^a   Steinbock, Lorenz J ^a   Radenovic, Aleksandra ^a   Dal Peraro, Matteo ^a,b   Blokesch, Melanie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN COMEA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDING AFFINITY; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; PERIPLASM; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84896704461     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004066     Document Type: Article

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