SfbII protein, a fibronectin binding surface protein of group A streptococci, is a serum opacity factor with high serotype-specific apolipoproteinase activity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 305-311

  Kreikemeyer, Bernd ^a   Martin, Diana R ^b   Chhatwal, Gursharan S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Serum opacity factor; SfbII protein; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; APOLIPOPROTEINS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0032831111     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00373-0     Document Type: Article

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