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Involvement of KU80 in T-DNA integration in plant cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Dec 2005
Li Jianxiong, Vaidya Manjusha, White Charles, Vainstein Alexander, Citovsky Vitaly, Tzfira Tzvi
Abstract excerpt
In Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of plant cells, the bacterium exports a well defined transferred DNA (T-DNA) fragment and a series of virulence proteins into the host cell. Following its nuclear import, the single-stranded T-DNA is stripped of its escorting proteins, most likely converts to a double-stranded (ds) form, and integrates into the host genome. Little is known about the precise...
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