Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the mig gene of Mycobacterium avium, which codes for a secreted macrophage-induced protein

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4548-4557

  Plum, Georg ^a   Brenden, Martina ^a   Clark Curtiss, Josephine E ^b   Pulverer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

EID: 0030809876     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4548-4557.1997     Document Type: Article

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