A conserved, transcriptionally active p28 multigene locus of Ehrlichia canis

Gene

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 245-252

  McBride, Jere W ^a   Yu, Xue Jie ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ehrlichia canis; Messenger RNA; Outer membrane protein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; EHRLICHIA CANIS; GENE LOCUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034702879     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00256-0     Document Type: Article

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