Characterization of the Streptococcus pneumoniae immunoglobulin A1 protease gene (IgA) and its translation product

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3957-3966

  Poulsen, Knud ^a   Reinholdt, Jesper ^a   Kilian, Mogens ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 0029794015     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.10.3957-3966.1996     Document Type: Article

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