Streptococcal mitogenic exotoxin Z, a novel acidic superantigenic toxin produced by a T1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3828-3833

  Kamezawa, Yukio ^a   Nakahara, Takako ^a   Nakano, Sachiko ^b   Abe, Yoshiaki ^b   Nozaki Renard, Junko ^c   Isono, Takahiro ^d  

^a Saitama College   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; MITOGENIC AGENT; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030930270     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.9.3828-3833.1997     Document Type: Article

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