Purification and biochemical characterization of a basic superantigen (SPEX/SMEZ3) from Streptococcus pyogenes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-163

  Gerlach, Dieter ^a   Fleischer, Bernhard ^b   Wagner, Manfred ^a   Schmidt, Karl Hermann ^a   Vettermann, Stefan ^c   Reichardt, Werner ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mitogen; Purification; Sequence; Streptococcus pyogenes; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; SUPERANTIGEN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MITOGENESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERNATANT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AGAROSE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MITOGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

SPEA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0034662495     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00229-9     Document Type: Article

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