Detection of phase variation in expression of proteins involved in hemoglobin and hemoglobin-haptoglobin binding by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4092-4101

  Cope, Leslie D ^a   Hrkal, Zbynek ^b   Hansen, Eric J ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN C; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033946032     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4092-4101.2000     Document Type: Article

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