Auto-transporter A protein of Neisseria meningitidis: A potent CD4+ T-cell and B-cell stimulating antigen detected by expression cloning

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1094-1105

  Ait Tahar, K ^a   Wooldridge, K G ^a   Turner, D P J ^a   Atta, M ^a   Todd, I ^a   Ala'Aldeen, D A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMORY CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RABBITS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0033822199     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02061.x     Document Type: Article

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