| Literature DB >> 16592419 |
J Tempé1, A Petit, M Holsters, M Montagu, J Schell.
Abstract
It is reported here that transfer by means of a conjugative process of an oncogenic plasmid from a virulent strain of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to a strain of that organism that had been cured of the plasmid is thermosensitive. Since the thermosensitive step found in the conjugative process appears similar in every respect to a thermosensitive step that is involved in the transformation of a normal cell to a tumor cell in the crown gall disease of plants, it is suggested that the observed results may reflect the existence of a thermosensitive step that is common to these two processes.Entities:
Year: 1977 PMID: 16592419 PMCID: PMC431316 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.74.7.2848
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205