Identification of homologs for thioredoxin, peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerase, and glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase in outer membrane fractions from Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4179-4189

  Shevchenko, Dmitriy V ^a   Akins, Darrin R ^a   Robinson, Esther J ^a   Li, Minyue ^a   Shevchenko, Olga V ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHILIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRITON X 100;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030821179     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4179-4189.1997     Document Type: Article

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