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. 1993 Jan 25;21(2):353–354. doi: 10.1093/nar/21.2.353

The virB operon of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence regulon has sequence similarities to B, C and D open reading frames downstream of the pertussis toxin-operon and to the DNA transfer-operons of broad-host-range conjugative plasmids.

K Shirasu 1, C I Kado 1
PMCID: PMC309115  PMID: 8441642

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