Two-dimensional electrophoresis for analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis culture filtrate and purification and characterization of six novel proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3492-3500

  Weldingh, Karin ^a   Rosenkrands, Ida ^a   Jacobsen, Susanne ^b   Rasmussen, Peter Birk ^a   Elhay, Martin J ^a   Andersen, Peter ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROVOCATION TEST; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 0031825604     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3492-3500.1998     Document Type: Article

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