Cloning and expression of the Moraxella catarrhalis lactoferrin receptor genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3656-3665

  Du, Run Pan ^a   Wang, Qijun ^a   Yang, Yan Ping ^a   Schryvers, Anthony B ^b   Chong, Pele ^a   Klein, Michel H ^a   Loosmore, Sheena M ^a  

^a Pasteur Merieux Connaught Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 0031848915     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.8.3656-3665.1998     Document Type: Article

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