Type IV secretion systems: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and virulence.
Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are multisubunit cell-envelope-spanning structures, ancestrally related to bacterial conjugation machines, which transfer proteins and nucleoprotein complexes across membranes. T4SSs mediate horizontal gene transfer, thus contributing to genome plasticity and the ev...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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