Exclusion of bioactive contaminations in Streptococcus pyogenes erythrogenic toxin A preparations by recombinant expression in Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4725-4733

  Fagin, Ursula ^a   Hahn, Ulrich ^b   Grötzinger, Joachim ^c   Fleischer, Bernhard ^d   Gerlach, Dieter ^e   Buck, Friedrich ^f   Wollmer, Axel ^c   Kirchner, Holger ^a   Rink, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Institute of Biochemistry   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e Institute of Experimental Microbiology   (Germany)

^f Inst Cell Biochem Clin Neurbio   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; PROTEINASE; STREPTOCOCCAL ERYTHROGENIC EXOTOXIN A; SUPERANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0030786746     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4725-4733.1997     Document Type: Article

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