Isolation and characterization of the outer membrane of Borrelia hermsii

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1082-1091

  Shang, Ellen S ^a   Skare, Jonathan T ^a,b   Exner, Maurice M ^a   Blanco, David R ^a   Kagan, Bruce L ^a,c   Miller, James N ^a   Lovett, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PORIN; PROTEINASE K; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA HERMSII; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 0031932921     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1082-1091.1998     Document Type: Article

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