The phosphorylcholine epitope undergoes phase variation on a 43- kilodalton protein in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and on pili of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4263-4267

  Weiser, Jeffrey N ^a   Goldberg, Joanna B ^b   Pan, Nina ^a   Wilson, Lynn ^c   Virji, Mumtaz ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; EPITOPE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031695884     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.9.4263-4267.1998     Document Type: Article

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