Cloning, expression, and sequencing of a cell surface antigen containing a leucine-rich repeat motif from Bacteroides forsythus ATCC 43037

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5703-5710

  Sharma, Ashu ^a   Sojar, Hakimuddin T ^a   Glurich, Ingrid ^a   Honma, Kiyonobu ^a   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^a,b   Genco, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTEROIDES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS;

BACTEROIDES FORSYTHUS;

EID: 0031797896     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.12.5703-5710.1998     Document Type: Article

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