Ehrlichia sennetsu groE operon and antigenic properties of the GroEL homolog

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-46

  Zhang, Yilan ^a   Ohashi, Norio ^a   Lee, Eunjoo H ^a   Tamura, Akira ^b   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia sennetsu; groE operon; Heat shock protein; Intracellular bacterium; Recombinant antigen

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHAPERONINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; EHRLICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GROEL PROTEIN; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030877501     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00020-5     Document Type: Article

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