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Preparations For Transformation Of Drosophila Melanogaster With Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Dmnopp140 And Dmnopp140-Rgg By P-Element Transformation, Jennifer Mccain Jul 2001

Preparations For Transformation Of Drosophila Melanogaster With Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Dmnopp140 And Dmnopp140-Rgg By P-Element Transformation, Jennifer Mccain

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Hydrodynamic Properties Of Dna Polymerases, Angela Sherell Byrd May 2001

Hydrodynamic Properties Of Dna Polymerases, Angela Sherell Byrd

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Characterization Of A Non-Ribosomal Peptide From Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, Graham Strub May 2001

Characterization Of A Non-Ribosomal Peptide From Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, Graham Strub

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The current efforts underway to sequence the genome of Agrobacterium tumefaciens have led to the discovery of a large region of DNA (52kb) with a strong homology to several polyketide synthetase genes. This was a matter of great interest to the Agrobacterium project; no current literature documents the production of a polyketide or non:iibosomal peptide from Agrobacterium. Furthermore, the multi-domain enzymes coded by these polyketide synthetase genes in other bacterial species are responsible for synthesizing several toxins, many which act as antibiotic agents {8, 9, 12, 16). This was also of great interest, since Agrobacterium is not known to produce …


Invasion Of Mouse Fibroblasts And Macrophages By Human Isolates Of Agrobacterium, Karmon Leigh Kriechbaum Jan 2001

Invasion Of Mouse Fibroblasts And Macrophages By Human Isolates Of Agrobacterium, Karmon Leigh Kriechbaum

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In the past few decades there has been growing evidence that species of Agrobacterium can be opportunistic animal pathogens. One of these species is Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which for years has been studied as a plant pathogen. The results of one published experiment suggested that an Agrobacterium toxin could kill mice (12). Other strong evidence for Agrobacterium as an opportunistic human pathogen is the over fifty published clinical cases in which humans were infected by Agrobacterium species (3, 13-25). In almost all of these cases the patient was immunocompromised in some way and they often had an invasive procedure such as …