F factor conjugation is a true type IV secretion system
Open Access
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 224 (1), 1-15
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(03)00430-0
Abstract
The F sex factor of Escherichia coli is a paradigm for bacterial conjugation and its transfer (tra) region represents a subset of the type IV secretiThis publication has 119 references indexed in Scilit:
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