Identification and characterization of App: An immunogenic autotransporter protein of Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 611-623

  Hadi, H A ^a   Wooldridge, K G ^a   Robinson, K ^a   Ala'Aldeen, D A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN APP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034887533     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02516.x     Document Type: Article

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