Sequence analysis and recombinant expression of a 28-kilodalton Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum rare outer membrane protein (Tromp2)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1230-1238

  Champion, Cheryl I ^a   Blanco, David R ^a   Exner, Maurice M ^b   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^c   Hancock, Robert E W ^b   Tempst, Paul ^c   Miller, James N ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 0031039160     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.4.1230-1238.1997     Document Type: Article

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