Membrane topology and cellular location of the Treponema pallidum glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) ortholog

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2266-2276

  Shevchenko, Dmitriy V ^a   Sellati, Timothy J ^a   Cox, David L ^b   Shevchenko, Olga V ^a   Robinson, Esther J ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a,c  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GLYCEROPHOSPHODIESTER PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0032899373     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2266-2276.1999     Document Type: Article

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