Recombinant Treponema pallidum rare outer membrane protein 1 (Tromp1) expressed in Escherichia coli has porin activity and surface antigenic exposure

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6685-6692

  Blanco, David R ^a   Champion, Cheryl I ^a   Exner, Maurice M ^b   Shang, Ellen S ^a   Skare, Jonathan T ^a   Hancock, Robert E W ^b   Miller, James N ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 0029805178     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.23.6685-6692.1996     Document Type: Article

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