Treponema pallidum major sheath protein homologue Tpr K is a target of opsonic antibody and the protective immune response

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 647-656

  Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a,b   Castro, Christa ^a   Barrett, Lynn ^a   Cameron, Caroline ^a   Mostowfi, Maryam ^a   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Subpopulation; Surface antigens; Syphilis; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; DNA; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PORINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0033557257     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.4.647     Document Type: Article

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