Recommended Reading - Journal articles which are relevant to the TransBacter project

Nature article by CAMBIA scientists:

Broothaerts W, Mitchell H J, Weir B, Kaines S, Smith L M A, Yang W, Mayer J E, Roa-Rodriguez C, Jefferson R A (2005) Gene transfer to plants by diverse species of bacteria, Nature 433:629-633.

Other relevant journal articles sorted by topic:

General

• Gelvin S B (1998) The introduction and expression of transgenes in plants, Curr. Op. in Biotechnol., 9:227-232.
• Gelvin S B (2000) Agrobacterium And Plant Genes Involved In T-DNA Transfer And Integration, Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 51:223-56.
• Gelvin S B (2003) Improving plant genetic engineering by manipulating the host, TRENDS in Biotechnology, 21:95-98.
• Gelvin S B. 2003 Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation: the Biology behind the 'Gene-Jockeying' Tool, Microbiology And Molecular Biology Reviews, 67: 16-37.
• Zhu J, Oger P M, Schrammeijer B, Hooykaas P J J, Farrand S K, Winans S C (2000) The Bases of Crown Gall Tumorigenesis, J. of Bacteriol., 182: 3885-3895.

Conjugation and secretion systems

• Christie P J (2004). Type IV secretion: the Agrobacterium virB/D4 and related conjugation systems. Biochem. Biophys. Acta. 1694:219-234.
• Gauthier A, Thomas N A, Finlay B (2003) Minireview: Bacterial Injection Machines, J. Biol. Chem., 278:25273-25276.
• Hubber A, Vergunst A C, Sullivan J T, Hooykaas P J J, Ronson C W (2004) Symbiotic phenotypes and translocated effector proteins of the Mesorhizobium loti strain R7A VirB/D4 type IV secretion system Molecular Microbiology 54(2):561-574.
• Lees M, Lanka E (1994) Common Mechanisms in Bacterial Conjugation and Ti-Mediated T-DNA Transfer to Plant Cells, Cell, 77:321-324.
• Llosa M, de la Cruz F (2005) Bacterial conjugation: a potential tool for genomic engineering, Research in Microbiology 156:1-6
• O'Callaghan D, Cazevielle C, Allardet-Servent A, Boschiroli M L, Bourg G, Foulongne V, Frutos P, Kulakov Y, Ramuz M (1999) A homologue of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB and Bordetella pertussis PtI type IV secretion systems is essential for intracellular survival of Brucella suis, Molecular Microbiology, 33(6):1210-1220.
• Schröder G, Lanka E (2005) Review: The mating pair formation system of conjugative plasmids - A versatile secretion machinery for transfer of proteins and DNA, Plasmid, 54:1-25.
• Teyssier-Cuvelle S, Mougel C, Nesme X (1999) Direct conjugal transfers of Ti plasmid to soil microflora Molecular Ecology 8:1273-1284.
• Teyssier-Cuvelle S, Oger P, Mougel C, Groud K, Farrand S K, Nesme X (2004) A highly selectable and highly transferable Ti plasmid to study conjugal host range and Ti plasmid dissemination in complex ecosystems Microbial Ecology 48:10-18.
• Viprey V, Del Greco A, Golinowski W, Broughton W J, Perret X (1998) Symbiotic implications of type III protein secretion machinery in Rhizobium, Molecular Microbiology 28(6):1381-1389.
• Waters, V.L. 1999 Conjugative transfer in the dissemination of beta-lactam and aminoglycoside resistance, Frontiers in Bioscience, 4:d433-456.
• Weller S A, Stead D E, Young J P W(2004) Acquisition of an Agrobacterium Ri plasmid and pathogenicity by other a-proteobacteria in cucumber and tomato crops affected by root mat Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70(5):2779-2785.

vir Regulon

• Hamilton C M, Hyewon L, Pei-Li Li, Cook D M, Piper K R, Beck Von Bodman S, Lanka E, Ream W, Farrand S K (2000) TraG from RP4 and TraG and VirD4 from Ti Plasmids Confer Relaxosome Specificity to the Conjugal Transfer System of pTiC58, Journal of Bacteriology 182:1541-1548.
• Kalogeraki V S, Winans S C (1998) Wound-Released Chemical Signals May Elicit Multiple Responses from an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strain Containing an Octopine-Type Ti Plasmid, Journal Of Bacteriology, 180:5660-5667.
• Krishnamohan A, Balaji V, Veluthambi K (2001) Efficient vir Gene Induction in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Requires virA, virG, and vir Box from the Same Ti Plasmid, Journal of Bacteriology, 183:4079-4089.
• Lessl M, Lanka M (1994) Common Mechanisms in Bacterial Conjugation and Ti-mediated T-DNA transfer to plant cells, Cell, 77:321-324.
• Pazour G J, Anath D (1990) virG, an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Transcriptional Activator, Initiates Translation at a UUG Codon and Is a Sequence-Specific DNA-Binding Protein, Journal of Bacteriologyy,172:1241-1249.
• Schrammeijer B, Beijersbergen A, Idler K B, Melchers L S, Thompson D V, & Hooykaas P J J (2000) Sequence analysis of the vir-region from Agrobacterium tumefaciens octopine Ti plasmid pTi15955, J. Exp. Bot., 51:1167-1169.
• Schröder G, Lanka E (2005) Review: The mating pair formation system of conjugative plasmids A versatile secretion machinery for transfer of proteins and DNA, Plasmid, 54:1-25.

Genetic Tools

• Ditta G, Stanfield S, Corbin D, Helinski D R (1980) Broad host range DNA cloning system for Gram-negative bacteria: Construction of a gene bank of Rhizobium meliloti, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 77:7347-7351. (RK2 and pRK290)
• Scott H N, Laible P D, Hanson D K (2003) Sequences of versatile broad-host-range vectors of the RK2 family, Plasmid, 50:74-79.
• Lohrke S M, Yang H, Jin S (2001) Reconstitution of Acetosyringone-Mediated Agrobacterium tumefaciens Virulence Gene Expression in the Heterologous Host Escherichia coli, Journal of Bacteriology, 183:3704-3711.

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