The immunoreactive 116 kDa surface protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is encoded in an operon

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3391-3402

  Duffy, Michael F ^a   Walker, Ian D ^a   Browning, Glenn F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

116 kDa surface protein; Antigen; Expression cloning; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Operon

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OCTOXINOL;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0030728471     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3391     Document Type: Article

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