A New Member of the S-Layer Protein Family: Characterization of the crs Gene from Campylobacter rectus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1521-1526

  Wang, Beinan ^a   Kraig, Ellen ^a   Kolodrubetz, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SURFACE ARRAY PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032037667     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1521-1526.1998     Document Type: Article

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