Physicochemical evidence that Treponema pallidum TroA is a zinc- containing metalloprotein that lacks porin-like structure

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4420-4423

  Deka, Ranjit K ^a   Lee, Yong Hwan ^a   Hagman, Kayla E ^a   Shevchenko, Dmitriy ^a   Lingwood, Clifford A ^b   Hasemann, Charles A ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEIN; MONOMER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TYLOXAPOL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CELL MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; METAL BINDING; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; STOICHIOMETRY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0032799345     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.14.4420-4423.1999     Document Type: Article

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