Key components of the eight classes of type IV secretion systems involved in bacterial conjugation or protein secretion

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5715-5727

  Guglielmini, Julien ^a,b   Néron, Bertrand ^a   Abby, Sophie S ^a,b   Garcillán Barcia, María Pilar ^c   La Cruz, De F ^c   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN VIRB4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VIRB4 GENE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84901337307     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku194     Document Type: Article

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