Cloning, expression, sequence analysis, and characterization of streptokinases secreted by porcine and equine isolates of Streptococcus equisimilis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6478-6486

  Caballero, Armando R ^a   Lottenberg, Richard ^b   Johnston, Kenneth H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; STREPTOKINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMINOGEN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOKINASE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0032744287     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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