Purification in quantity of the secreted form of WI-1: A major adhesin on Blastomyces dermatitidis yeasts

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 219-226

  Audet, Robert ^a   Brandhorst, T Tristan ^a   Klein, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BLASTOMYCES; FUNGI;

EID: 0031281666     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1997.0783     Document Type: Article

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