VirB8-like protein TraH is crucial for DNA transfer in Enterococcus faecalis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fercher, Christian ^a   Probst, Ines ^b,c   Kohler, Verena ^a   Goessweiner Mohr, Nikolaus ^d,e,f,g   Arends, Karsten ^h   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^b,i   Zangger, Klaus ^a   Meyer, N Helge ^j   Keller, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^h ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

ⁱ BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRAH PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84971619679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24643     Document Type: Article

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