Characterization of the Moraxella catarrhalis uspA1 and uspA2 genes and their encoded products

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 4026-4034

  Cope, Leslie D ^a   Lafontaine, Eric R ^a   Slaughter, Clive A ^b   Hasemann Jr , Charles A ^a   Aebi, Christoph ^a,b   Henderson, Frederick W ^c   McCracken Jr , George H ^b   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA TEMPLATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 0032985226     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.13.4026-4034.1999     Document Type: Article

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