Hypervariability generated by natural selection in an extracellular complement-inhibiting protein of serotype M1 strains of group A Streptococcus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3128-3133

  Stockbauer, Kathryn E ^a   Grigsby, Diana ^a   Pan, Xi ^a   Fu, Yun Xin ^b   Perea Mejia, Luis M ^c   Cravioto, Alejandro ^c   Musser, James M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPLEMENT INACTIVATOR PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0032539905     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.6.3128     Document Type: Article

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