Cloning and sequencing of BES-1 gene encoding the immunogenic antigen of Streptococcus sanguis KTH-1 isolated from the patients with Behcet's disease

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 449-460

  Yoshikawa, Koji ^a   Kotake, Satoshi ^a   Kubota, Toru ^b   Kimura, Koichi ^b   Isogai, Emiko ^c   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BEHCET DISEASE; CELL DNA; CLONE; CODON; DIGESTION; DNA LIBRARY; EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCING; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RESTRICTION SITE; SEROTYPE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUIS;

EID: 0032077952     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(98)80184-9     Document Type: Article

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