Comparison of the abilities of proteins from Bartonella bacilliformis and Bartonella henselae to deform red cell membranes and to bind to red cell ghost proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 207-217

  Iwaki Egawa, Sachiko ^a   Ihler, Garret M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella bacilliformis; Bartonella henselae; Deformin; Membrane deformation; Outer membrane protein; Red cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CELL INVASION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE GHOST; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL VEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0031416196     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00478-3     Document Type: Article

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