hgpB, a gene encoding a second Haemophilus influenzae hemoglobin-and hemoglobin-haptoglobin-binding protein

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4733-4741

  Ren, Zhen ^a   Jin, Hongfan ^a   Morton, Daniel J ^a   Stull, Terrence L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHO 2308 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH REGULATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 0031692798     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.4733-4741.1998     Document Type: Article

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